Comment 1 for bug 1623256

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: adjust the way to create dbgsym packages like Debian does

I'm currently looking into using debhelper's dbgsym generation instead of pkg-create-dbgsym. This requires some modifications, in particular:

  * Naming the dbgsym packages .ddeb instead of .deb (as LP cannot deal with .deb right now)
  * Reading /CurrentlyBuilding to determine whether or not build dbgsyms.

It would be nice if Launchpad builders could move away from /CurrentlyBuilding and instead set ENABLE_DBGSYM=0 if debug symbols should *not* be built; for the default, it can either not set it at all or set ENABLE_DBGSYM=auto. This would then get rid of the /CurrentlyBuilding parsing logic in dh_strip.