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Diffstat (limited to 'dh_strip')
| -rwxr-xr-x | dh_strip | 37 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 14 deletions
@@ -44,19 +44,18 @@ 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. +Causes dh_strip to save debug symbols stripped from the packages it acts on +as independent files in the package build directory of the specified debugging +package. -For example, you might have a package named 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 will -automatically load up the debugging symbols from it when debugging libfoo. +For example, if your packages are lifoo and foo and you want to include a +foo-dbg package with debugging symbols, use dh_strip --dbg-to=foo-dbg. -This option may be repeated to list more than one package. +Note that this option behaves significantly different in debhelper +compatibility levels 4 and below. Instead of specifying the name of a debug +package to put symbols in, it specifies a package (or packages) which +should have separated debug symbols, and the separated symbols are placed +in packages with "-dbg" added to their name. Note that if you use this option, your package should build-depend on binutils (>= 2.14.90.0.7). @@ -180,9 +179,19 @@ foreach my $package (@{$dh{DOPACKAGES}}) { # 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"); + if (! compat(4)) { + if (ref $dh{DEBUGPACKAGES}) { + $keep_debug=1; + # Note that it's only an array for the v4 stuff; + # for v5 only one value is used. + $debugtmp=tmpdir(@{$dh{DEBUGPACKAGES}}[0]); + } + } + else + if (ref $dh{DEBUGPACKAGES} && grep { $_ eq $package } @{$dh{DEBUGPACKAGES}}) { + $keep_debug=1; + $debugtmp=tmpdir($package."-dbg"); + } } @shared_libs=@executables=@static_libs=(); |