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

[Russ Allbery]

Anders Kaseorg <andersk at mit.edu> writes:

> 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.

Upstream bug.  The OpenAFS build system doesn't support building
unstripped versions of any binaries other than the servers.  A fix is
unfortunately a little annoying without merging in the substantial build
system changes that are currently only in HEAD.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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