Bug#399332: -dbg package

[Antonio Valentino]

Hi Yaroslav,

Il 23/01/2012 16:22, Yaroslav Halchenko ha scritto:

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>> 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

I can take in charge it ... but not before next weekend

>> 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

Sorry, no idea about which could be the issue.
Maybe performing unittests in verbose mode could help.

best regards

-- 
Antonio Valentino