SYMPHONY Debian package

Andreas Tille andreas at an3as.eu
Wed Jan 26 06:18:37 GMT 2022


Hi Ted,

Am Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 10:37:49PM -0500 schrieb Ted Ralphs:
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> I am the author of SYMPHONY, which you so kindly packaged on Deiban.

It was not really me but the Debian Science team.  Please note: Communication
via our mailing list or via the bug tracking system (by calling
    reportbug coinor-symphony
) is prefered over contacting single maintainers.  The rationale is that
I personally have my hands in more than 1000 Debian packages and might not
be as responsible as I want to be.

> Thanks
> so much for that, it's a huge help! I recently became aware that SYMPHONY
> is built with "-g" on Debian for some odd reason.

That's not odd but by policy.  There is no harm done by using the -g
option since Debian automatically provides a dbgsym package including
debug symbols.  The resulting binary is stripped afterwards in the
packaging process (man dh_strip).

> This is actually true for
> some other COIN-OR projects and I'm trying to track down the reason. There
> is a discussion about this same issue in Cbc here:
> 
> https://github.com/coin-or/Cbc/issues/474
> 
> I think it has somehow to do with the autoreconf, which seems to result in
> different (and wrong) default flags being selected, but it's a little hard
> for me to tell what's happening. Do you have any idea?

Please checkout the resulting binary if you are not convinced that debug
symbols are removed.

> By the way, I plan
> to release a 5.7.0 version soon, which will incorporate a completely
> revamped build system, which may fix this issue. Thanks again!

I hope it will not "fix" the chance to build with -g in the first place.
;-)  Feel free to ping on the maintainers list or create a bug report
with the title "New version available" once this is out.

Thank you in any case for your feedback about the Debian package

     Andreas.



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