[Gnash-dev] Re: oprofile difficulties, easy access to debuginfo, and other thoughts

[JustFillBug]

On 2009-10-13, Michael Stone <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> We tried for some time to acquire appropriate debugging symbols, e.g., in my
> case, via debug.debian.org and via the instructions at 
>
>    http://wiki.debian.org/DebugPackage
>
> but, unfortunately, we were completely unsuccessful. Hence this brief note,
> which exists merely to let you know that there are a couple of people out 
> there
> (like Bernie and me) who would like to understand gnash better but who are
> having difficulty doing so because we ran into lots of little roadblocks that
> exceeded our time+energy budget for the evening.
>

Well, the most simple way to preserve debug information on deb package
is to set the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip before dpkg-buildpackage or
whatever.

See: 
  <http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-debianrules-options>