Bugs in debuginfo packages

Karel Klic kklic at redhat.com
Fri Mar 4 14:08:37 UTC 2011


Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 09:28:10AM +0100, Karel Klic wrote:
>> component: cduce (rjones)
>>   file: cduce-0.5.3-8.fc15.i686/usr/bin/cduce
>>    - debuginfo missing; ELF stripped
>>   file: cduce-0.5.3-8.fc15.i686/usr/bin/dtd2cduce
>>    - debuginfo missing; ELF stripped
>
> This and many of the other ones that you reported against my name and
> OCaml native binaries.  The OCaml compiler doesn't generate DWARF
> output (because nothing at the moment could consume it, so what would
> be the point).  Now I don't know if it's a bug or not that debuginfo
> is missing for these, but maybe the script should exclude
> OCaml-generated programs (somehow).

Fine, thanks.

I modified the script to skip OCaml-generated packages. There seem to be 
no reasonable way to correctly detect OCaml-generated _binaries_.

Karel


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