r1614: * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip

     support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
     dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
   * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
     -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
     associated -dbg packages.

1 files changed, 58 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/dh_strip b/dh_strip
index 9e107f46..8543a4ec 100755
--- a/dh_strip
+++ b/dh_strip
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ use Debian::Debhelper::Dh_Lib;
 
 =head1 SYNOPSIS
 
-B<dh_strip> [S<I<debhelper options>>] [B<-X>I<item>]
+B<dh_strip> [S<I<debhelper options>>] [B<-X>I<item>] [--dbg-package=package] [--keep-debug]
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
@@ -42,6 +42,28 @@ Exclude files that contain "item" anywhere in their filename from being
 stripped. You may use this option multiple times to build up a list of
 things to exclude.
 
+=item B<--dbg-package=>I<package>
+
+This option tells dh_strip that the given package has an associated "-dbg"
+package. dh_strip will, when stripping off the debug symbols of files in
+the given package, save them to independent files in the package build
+directory for the "-dbg" package.
+
+For example, you might have a package libfoo libfoo, and want to include a
+libfoo-dbg package that contains debugging symbols. The command "dh_strip
+--dbg-package=libfoo" will make dh_strip save the debugging symbols for
+usr/lib/libfoo.so.0 into usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/libfoo.so.0 in the package
+build directory for libfoo-dbg. If libfoo-dbg is installed, gdb wil
+automatically load up the debugging symbols from it when debugging libfoo.
+
+This option may be repeated to list more than one package.
+
+=item B<-k>, B<--keep-debug>
+
+Debug symbols will be retained, but split into an independant
+file in usr/lib/debug/ in the package build directory. --dbg-package
+is easier to use than this option, but this option is more flexible.
+
 =back
 
 =head1 NOTES
@@ -118,22 +140,57 @@ sub testfile {
 	}
 }
 
+sub make_debug {
+	my $file=shift;
+	my $tmp=shift;
+	my $desttmp=shift;
+
+	my ($base_file)=$file=~/^$tmp(.*)/;
+	my $debug_path=$desttmp."/usr/lib/debug/".$base_file;
+	my $debug_dir=dirname($debug_path);
+	if (! -d $debug_dir) {
+		doit("install", "-d", $debug_dir);
+	}
+	doit("objcopy", "--only-keep-debug", $file, $debug_path);
+	# No reason for this to be executable.
+	doit("chmod", 644, $debug_path);
+	return $debug_path;
+}
+
+sub attach_debug {
+	my $file=shift;
+	my $debug_path=shift;
+	doit("objcopy", "--add-gnu-debuglink", $debug_path, $file);
+}
+
 foreach my $package (@{$dh{DOPACKAGES}}) {
 	my $tmp=tmpdir($package);
 
+	# Support for keeping the debugging symbols in a detached file.
+	my $keep_debug=$dh{KEEP_DEBUG};
+	my $debugtmp=$tmp;
+	if (ref $dh{DEBUGPACKAGES} && grep { $_ eq $package } @{$dh{DEBUGPACKAGES}}) {
+		$keep_debug=1;
+		$debugtmp=tmpdir($package."-dbg");
+	}
+	
 	@shared_libs=@executables=@static_libs=();
 	find(\&testfile,$tmp);
 
 	foreach (@shared_libs) {
+		my $debug_path = make_debug($_, $tmp, $debugtmp) if $keep_debug;
 		# Note that all calls to strip on shared libs
 		# *must* inclde the --strip-unneeded.
 		doit("strip","--remove-section=.comment",
 			"--remove-section=.note","--strip-unneeded",$_);
+		attach_debug($_, $debug_path) if $keep_debug;
 	}
 	
 	foreach (@executables) {
+		my $debug_path = make_debug($_, $tmp, $debugtmp) if $keep_debug;
 		doit("strip","--remove-section=.comment",
 			"--remove-section=.note",$_);
+ 		attach_debug($_, $debug_path) if $keep_debug
 	}
 
 	foreach (@static_libs) {