Bug#399332: -dbg package

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

retitle 399332 python-tables: provide -dbg package
severity 399332 wishlist
thanks


On Mon, 23 Jan 2012, Picca Frédéric-Emmanuel wrote:
> thanks for this upload :))
you are welcome!!!  Kudos to Antonio for taking care about preparing new
package -- great job!

> what about providing also a -dbg package as explain here [1]
> It should help during bug investigation.

I can only +100 on this one -- I have been generating -dbg for packages
I maintain and with python-awareness of gdb as we have it now -- they
are indeed indispensable... anyone up for a job?  related bugreport is
#399332  so I am CCing it from now on.

Pretty much it should  be quite easy -- just add -dbg to control, I
think dh would build for those versions, and then in debian/rules you
would only need to move _d.so into -dbg pkg

> It seems also that test failed on armhf and mipsel architecture for now [2].
> but the error messages are not very explicite.

> Illegal instruction ???
> Bus Error ???

yeah -- quite obscure ones

> Yaroslav do we have a way to investigate further on thoses FTBFS ?
could anyone contact porters and seek help from them?  I am quite tight
on time here

> The migration to testing will be blocked by thoses FTBFS.

if no help comes from them we could do evil (don't tell anyone I said
that ;-) ) -- just disable unittests while building on those
platforms
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