[rkv]

One of my favorite changes:

> If you use debhelper/9.20151219 or newer in Debian, it will generate debug symbol packages (as <package>-dbgsym) for you with no additional changes to your source package. These packages are not available from the main archive. Please fetch these from debian-debug or snapshot.debian.org.

No more shipping -dbg packages with full binaries. And less storage space is always a win.

[JoshTriplett]

-dbg packages never shipped full binaries (with a few exceptions for unusual libraries); they always shipped detached debug symbols. This change just makes them automatic and puts them in a separate archive.

[rkv]

Did not know that, thank you. Do you know happen to know how it is done? When I pull the debian tarball for nginx (which has a -dbg package with symbol files) I see:

> dh_strip --dbg-package=nginx-$(*)-dbg

Which is the exact same command I use in my rules file. But instead of giving me a -dbg package with symbol files debuild gives me a -dbg package with the unstripped binary. Not sure what I am missing. I am following the DebugPackage guide on the Debian Wiki[1].

1. https://wiki.debian.org/DebugPackage

[djsumdog]

Did not know this about Debian. I've been using Debian as my base Docker image more often these days and I'll keep this in mind for future debuggin'