[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#642026: No debugging symbols .deb package ?

[Simon McVittie]

On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 at 19:14:50 +0200, Chris Laberti wrote:
> I'm trying to send a backtrace for a program but gdb complains that 2
> of the libraries do not have a debugging symbols .deb package. Is
> there a reason for this ? How can I get/create the package ?

You're right, nss-mdns doesn't have a debugging symbols package yet.
This is harmless, unless the bug you are investigating involves
nss-mdns itself.

> Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_mdns4_minimal.so.2...(no debugging
> symbols found)...done.

If none of the stack frames (entries in the backtrace) involve functions
in the nss-mdns modules, then it is safe to ignore this.

If you're investigating a crash that *does* involve nss-mdns,
you'll need to rebuild it with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="nostrip noopt"
as described on <http://wiki.debian.org/HowToGetABacktrace>.

    S