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Bug#1057621: valgrind should not drop valgrind-dbg

From	Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject	Bug#1057621: valgrind should not drop valgrind-dbg
Date	2025-04-13 11:30 +0200
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On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 07:21:03PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Dec 2023 02:05:07 +0200 Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> wrote:
> > For the usual case where debug symbols are only used
> > when debugging in a debugger this is no problem,
> > but valgrind-dbg is (like libc6-dbg) an exception:
> > 
> > Package: valgrind
> > Recommends: valgrind-dbg, gdb
> > 
> > https://sources.debian.org/src/valgrind/1%3A3.20.0-2/debian/README.Debian/#L11-L16
> > 
> >   Debian's valgrind package comes stripped of any debug symbols, which are
> >   provided by the valgrind-dbg package. Note that it's recommended to install
> >   such package because without those symbols valgrind may generate less
> >   helpful error messages in certain situations, or not work at all.
> 
> Do you agree with the submitter of this bug that the lack of debug symbols
> available via Recommends is a release critical bug? I'm not an experienced
> valgrind user, but with my Release Team member hat on, this looks a bit
> exaggerated.
(I believe the RC policy includes unavailable packages in 
Recommends: ...)

> Hope to hear your opinion.
> 
> Without an exception for the freeze policy, fixing this bug by reintroducing
> the valgrind-dbg package is going to be extremely tight, given that it has
> to pass NEW and that the window for new binary packages closes on
> 2025-04-15.

If the debug symbols are as relevant as the README claims, the 
obvious solution is to include them in the main package.

Possible debdiff attached.

Chris

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Bug#1057621: valgrind should not drop valgrind-dbg Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org> - 2025-04-13 11:30 +0200
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