Re: Automatic dbgsym packages for Haskell binaries (Was: Are pkg-haskell-tools, haskell-stack, haskell-cabal-install, cabal-debian meant to build in unstable?)
- To: Sven Bartscher <sven.bartscher@weltraumschlangen.de>
- Cc: debian-haskell@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Automatic dbgsym packages for Haskell binaries (Was: Are pkg-haskell-tools, haskell-stack, haskell-cabal-install, cabal-debian meant to build in unstable?)
- From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
- Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2016 14:50:46 -0700
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20160416215046.GA28993@artemis.silentflame.com>
- In-reply-to: <20160303231725.7a38aa84@sven.bartscher>
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Hello,
On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 11:17:25PM +0100, Sven Bartscher wrote:
> I noticed that dh creates automatic dbgsym packages for binaries, but
> lintian complains that they don't actually contain any debug symbols.
> Does GHC compile with debug symbols? If not we should probably just
> disable the automatic creation of dbgsym packages for Haskell binaries.
This page [1] and this (old) ML post [2] suggest that GHC can't compile
with debug symbols.
[1] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Debugging/CompiledCode
[2] https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2011-April/091004.html
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Sean Whitton
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