add -debuginfo packages

[Ryan Johnson]

On 18/02/2012 12:58 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 04:47:48PM +0000, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>> On 21/08/2009 00:40, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>>> On 04/08/2009 13:58, Reini Urban wrote:
>>>> Rather than stripping our exe's and dll's I suggest to strip the debug
>>>> info into
>>>> seperate /usr/lib/debug/path/file.dbg and package them seperately in -debuginfo
>>>> packages such as with fedora.
>> FWIW, attached is the patch I've been using to do this, based on Reini's
>> patch, updated to address some of your concerns.
>>
>> This can, as you suggested, strip the symbols to a location outside of ${D}
>> and create a single debuginfo package containing those symbols for each cygport.
>>
>> I know that support for these packages in upset and setup has been rejected by
>> cgf, but it's still useful to me to keep the debuginfo for the packaged builds
>> of Xwin around.
> I can see why it would be useful but why do we need to change anything?
> Why can't you just release a xorg-server-debuginfo package and have
> people install that when you want them to collect debugging?
If they have to install a different binary then the existing stack trace 
is no longer useful. Especially if the "debug" package had different 
optimization levels and makes a heisenbug disappear.

Ryan

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