[Bug 370612] [NEW] openafs-*-dbgsym packages have empty symbol files

[Anders Kaseorg]

Public bug reported:

openafs-client-dbgsym from ddebs.ubuntu.com seems to contain essentially
empty symbol files for each binary (sizes in bytes):

2712	/usr/lib/debug/sbin/afsd
2712	/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/afsmonitor
2632	/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/afs-up
2704	/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/bos
…
2632	/usr/lib/debug/usr/sbin/fstrace

and similarly for the rest of the openafs-*-dbgsym packages.

There is an openafs-dbg package in the archive, but it only contains
symbols for the fileserver binaries:

1279112	/usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/openafs/buserver
1781718	/usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/openafs/fileserver
1120749	/usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/openafs/ptserver
365334	/usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/openafs/salvager
649472	/usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/openafs/upclient
668401	/usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/openafs/upserver
1108194	/usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/openafs/vlserver
1478198	/usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/openafs/volserver

Based on this comment from openafs/debian/rules, this seems to be
intentional for Debian, but it is probably wrong for Ubuntu, which
distributes -dbgsym packages for every binary package.

# Only include debugging information for the servers installed into
# /usr/lib/openafs rather than for all binaries.  The servers are where
# debugging backtraces really matter, and a 10MB debugging package is
# overkill.
binary-arch: install-stamp
        dh binary-arch --before dh_strip
        dh_strip --dbg-package=openafs-dbg
        rm -rf debian/openafs-dbg/usr/lib/debug/lib
        rm -rf debian/openafs-dbg/usr/lib/debug/sbin
        rm -rf debian/openafs-dbg/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin
        rm -rf debian/openafs-dbg/usr/lib/debug/usr/sbin
        dh binary-arch --remaining

However, I’m not sure whether this problem is openafs’s fault or pkg-
create-dbgsym’s fault.

** Affects: openafs (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: pkg-create-dbgsym (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Also affects: pkg-create-dbgsym (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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openafs-*-dbgsym packages have empty symbol files
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