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by rkv 3289 days ago
One of my favorite changes:

> If you use debhelper/9.20151219 or newer in Debian, it will generate debug symbol packages (as <package>-dbgsym) for you with no additional changes to your source package. These packages are not available from the main archive. Please fetch these from debian-debug or snapshot.debian.org.

No more shipping -dbg packages with full binaries. And less storage space is always a win.
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JoshTriplett 3289 days ago
-dbg packages never shipped full binaries (with a few exceptions for unusual libraries); they always shipped detached debug symbols. This change just makes them automatic and puts them in a separate archive.
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rkv 3288 days ago
Did not know that, thank you. Do you know happen to know how it is done? When I pull the debian tarball for nginx (which has a -dbg package with symbol files) I see:

> dh_strip --dbg-package=nginx-$(*)-dbg

Which is the exact same command I use in my rules file. But instead of giving me a -dbg package with symbol files debuild gives me a -dbg package with the unstripped binary. Not sure what I am missing. I am following the DebugPackage guide on the Debian Wiki[1].

1. https://wiki.debian.org/DebugPackage

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JoshTriplett 3288 days ago
With current Debian, you don't need to do anything at all, and in particular you should not pass --dbg-package. Instead, dh_strip will automatically create a -dbgsym package containing detached debug symbols, if your package contains a library or binary.

Also, make sure that you build with debug symbols enabled in the first place; the default CFLAGS should do that.

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rkv 3288 days ago
Sorry, I'm not asking about current Debian. In your previous comment you mention that the symbol packages are not new. I'm wondering how people have been creating them on Debian 8.
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djsumdog 3289 days ago
Did not know this about Debian. I've been using Debian as my base Docker image more often these days and I'll keep this in mind for future debuggin'
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oneplane 3288 days ago
Base docker image? Sounds like you are using docker to run a complete OS.. not sure if that's the best way to do either thing. (Container: run the app, not the OS. Need a virtual OS? run a vm..)
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djsumdog 3288 days ago
No, I use Docker to run a single process. You still need a base image. Some people use Alpine, some Ubuntu, some Debian and some roll their own. Here are the Debian base images:

https://hub.docker.com/_/debian/

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