[Reproducible-builds] debug-sym packages?

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 11:19:14AM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Hi,

Hi there!

> Why does it build ghc-dbgsym at all? I do not define that in
> debian/rules. And
> https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/ExperimentalToolchain does
> not mention a change in that direction either.

We use the patched version of debhelper that builds .ddeb packages. That for
either test debhelper at generating them and (TTBMK) helped understanding some
differences (given that it contains some informations that would have been
stripped otherwise).

> Also, is there any way to find out for what binary this debug file is?
> Or would it be visible if readelf would not fail on these files?

you can use the build-id.
The differences in that file comes from
./usr/lib/ghc/unix_G4Yo1pNtYrk8nCq1cx8P9d/libHSunix-2.7.1.0-G4Yo1pNtYrk8nCq1cx8P9d-ghc7.10.1.so

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