Re: packages with broken debuginfo

[Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>]

Matthias Saou (thias spam spam spam spam spam spam spam egg and spam freshrpms net) said: 
> Bill Nottingham wrote :
> 
> > Fedora Extras packages:
> > -----------------------
> [...]
> > libebml-debuginfo-0.7.3-1.i386.rpm
> > libmatroska-debuginfo-0.7.5-1.i386.rpm
> > plib-debuginfo-1.8.3-6.i386.rpm
> > plib16-debuginfo-1.6.0-2.i386.rpm
> [...]
> 
> These have in common that they only produce static libraries, no shared.
> Is it then normal to not have the debug symbols stripped out, or is it
> because of some problem, like needing to chmod +x the static libs?

As I understand, the debug symbols are stripped out, but no
debuginfo is created. Hm, this could be a bug with how debuginfo
packages are generated.

Bill