Missing dbgsym packages for ubuntu-meta

[Marcin Juszkiewicz]

Hi

At Linaro we work on binary arm toolchain for few Linux distributions
and MS Windows world. Part of my work recently was creating sysroot
images for it based on Ubuntu 11.10 'oneiric' release. There were two
types of them:

- one filled with -dev packages for everything
- as above + -dbgsym packages

First one was easy - I wrote script which went though list of packages
in image and output all -dev packages from their source packages. Manual
edit of seed was needed anyway to get rid of not needed entries.

Second was generated also with script. Much longer one with some bugs in
it. I run it on list of all packages available for my system (12.04
'precise' + set of PPAs) and got huge amount of packages without -dbgsym
support.

But as working with ~2500 packages is hard and may not have sense I
decided to run this script against ubuntu-meta seeds for amd64 platform.
Resulting list is very short:

acpi-support
anacron
bzip2
checkbox-qt
cpio
dmidecode
dnsutils
ed
ftp
iproute
logrotate
make
netcat-openbsd
pcmciautils
printer-driver-splix
rsync
unzip
wireless-tools
xdg-user-dirs
zip

All those packages contain host binaries, none of them is using
debhelper (which is requirement to get -dbgsym package built in
automatic way). Are there plans to have -dbgsym coverage for standard
system? If yes, then I will report bugs against those packages.

Scripts are here: lp:~hrw/+junk/linaro-ci-sysroots/