[UNSTABLE][PATCH v2] UBUNTU: [Packaging] Build and include GDB Python scripts into debug packages

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 17/05/2021 15:37, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 7:50 PM Krzysztof Kozlowski
> <krzysztof.kozlowski at canonical.com> wrote:
>>
>> The kernel comes with useful GDB debugging scripts/commands (enabled
>> with CONFIG_GDB_SCRIPTS), however these are built either with "all" make
>> target or with "scripts_gdb".  Build these in
>> "$(stampdir)/stamp-build-%" target and package in "install-%" under
>> /usr/lib/debug/share.
>>
> 
> I'm still not too sure about this location. Where did it come from?

It came from other files in dbgsym package.

> 
> Normally, when running under gdb it has autoload functionality of
> loading auxiliary scripts.

I am not sure if this is good idea to add them to autoload. They have no
meaning outside of Linux kernel so why they should be present on each
gdb run? Anyway user will have to load symbols separately, so why not
loading scripts as well?

Best regards,
Krzysztof