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Please Arch Linux developers: stop stripping all packages of debug symbols

• d33 9y ago
  Isn't it a common practice to strip, but keep them in separately published files that only contain symbols?
  • cozzyd 9y ago
    That's how Fedora/EL does it at least. GDB even tells you what debug info packages are missing
  • codys 9y ago
    It is, in linux distros at large. Arch, however, does not publish (or even generate) those debug files (which contain the debug info & symbols that were stripped out).
• voltagex_ 9y ago
  Sigh. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=174250 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=174250 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10975 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10975 https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Debug_-_Getting_Traces https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Debug_-_Getting_Traces still not clear if it was ever implemented
  • codys 9y ago
    If you build packages yourself, one can either include debug info, or generate a split package that includes debug info. The piece that may still be missing is the inclusion of source code in debug packages, which is necessary to get any context for a debug session (it is not sufficient to seek out and clone random git repos because of versioning & patching differences). But ideally, there would be a `-debug` package for every package in arch's repos, and one would not need to build them manually when debug symbols are needed. Arch does not have this.