[Fedora-packaging] Re: Importance of debuginfo packages

[Tom 'spot' Callaway]

On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 19:16 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 11:54:22AM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> > >>>>> "JK" == Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> writes:
> > 
> > JK> Enough so that running gdb (gnu debugger) on the application will
> > JK> produce a meaningful traceback.
> > 
> > So what needs to be there in order for that to work?
> > 
> > I need to be able to superficially inspect a debuginfo package and
> > know whether it has enough stuff in it or not.
> 
> That's very difficult, especially in projects with subdirectories that
> may redefine CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS w/o the builder noticing. sope/ogo is one
> nasty candidate for example.
> 
> There are some safety pins in debuginfo, IIRC if it's turned on, but
> the debuginfo turns out empty the build will fail. That's how it gets
> my attention to fix debugging symbols at least :)

Indeed, debuginfo being empty is about the only giant red warning flag
that I'm aware of. :)

~spot
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