[artful] package libgps22-dbgsym contains no files

[Henning Meyer]

I use Ubuntu 17.10 and the following repositories

deb http://ddebs.ubuntu.com artful main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://ddebs.ubuntu.com artful-updates main restricted universe multiverse

apt-cache show libgps22-dbgsym
Package: libgps22-dbgsym
Architecture: amd64
Version: 3.16-4
Multi-Arch: same
Priority: extra
Section: libs
Source: gpsd
Maintainer: Bernd Zeimetz <email address hidden>
Installed-Size: 2
Depends: gpsd-dbg (= 3.16-4)
Filename: pool/universe/g/gpsd/libgps22-dbgsym_3.16-4_amd64.ddeb
Size: 1022
MD5sum: 1d37112d2fd16e2a681db8f50e8ca8c4
SHA1: 92f43bca66882fb12e1ceef36309fa19d45d6916
SHA256: 032a16623ed8ce848ce0681d32ca0239da5b32b96595b99a62576afbe29cb6f7
SHA512: 3378006b5af6527ab700b162aa561320672f317ecf5607efd0b64cac9e1b5c1c062aca8345987ed10c36ad81a37359bef7d45bba648c2ab3c6d5f8d7e82392be

I see this after executing "apt-get download libgps22-dbgsym":
a file libgps22-dbgsym_3.16-4_amd64.ddeb with the right size and hash. It is empty:

dpkg -c libgps22-dbgsym_3.16-4_amd64.ddeb

drwxrwxr-x root/root 0 2016-11-04 23:35 ./

I would like it to contain the debug symbols for libgps.so

I would like the automated tools to not create empty debug packages

[Henning Meyer (henning.meyer)]

After checking the gpsd source page, all generated dbgsym's seem to be empty

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

Hi,
I have not tracked when this was fixed - but it is.

Cosmic:
# dpkg -L libgps23-dbgsym
/.
/usr
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/debug
/usr/lib/debug/.build-id
/usr/lib/debug/.build-id/3b
/usr/lib/debug/.build-id/3b/7e6ab5e662f607e4ecfafe4a88d464a2c3d972.debug
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/libgps23-dbgsym