Path: csiph.com!2.us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!news.roellig-ltd.de!open-news-network.org!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Ben Finney Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: python debug packages Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 12:40:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Tue Oct 11 10:38:29 2016 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.206 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.001, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RDNS_NONE=0.793] autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate:hard: -6.1 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Lines: 29 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Public-Key-ID: 0xAC128405 X-Public-Key-Fingerprint: 517C F14B B2F3 98B0 CB35 4855 B8B2 4C06 AC12 8405 X-Public-Key-URL: http://www.benfinney.id.au/contact/bfinney-pubkey.asc X-Post-From: Ben Finney Cancel-Lock: sha1:a1zUWUIR3Ip3/XUHv3fkkv9gEAc= X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/14278 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/85mvibmarr.fsf@benfinney.id.au Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 21:37:44 +1100 X-Original-Message-ID: <85mvibmarr.fsf@benfinney.id.au> X-Original-References: <571A3C02.6050104@debian.org> <571A610C.7050208@debian.org> <20160514212625.GC28930@teal.hq.k1024.org> <85shs3mgbb.fsf@benfinney.id.au> <87lgxvjlgv.fsf@zoro.exoscale.ch> X-Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:8936 Vincent Bernat writes: > The page seems up-to-date It makes no reference to why ‘foo-dbgsym’ is not enough, so the reader doesn't have any guidance on which practice overrules the other. > and already explains why Python is different (presence of a debug > interpreter) As I said, that doesn't explain it. Please consider that someone reading those instructions may have no more sophisticated idea of debug symbol packages than “I heard that they are done automatically now, so I'll just rely on that”. So this: > and that the -dbg package contains the symbols for the regular > extensions as well as the unstripped extensions for the debug > interpreter. doesn't address the confusion, I think. -- \ “If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn't open, and | `\ you friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag | _o__) would be to pretend you were swimming.” —Jack Handey | Ben Finney