nfdump 1.5.7-5 introduces an empty -dbg package, while the main package ships unstripped binaries

[Steve Langasek]

Binary package hint: nfdump

The latest sync of nfdump has introduced one issue and highlighted another:

- The new version of nfdump has added a new binary package, nfdump-dbg, which isn't mentioned at all in the changelog. -dbg packages are ok to have in Ubuntu when they're synced in from Debian because it's not worth diverging over, but they're otherwise useless in Ubuntu because of the automated dbgsym packages available. In this case the package seems to be doubly useless, as it's ended up empty except for /usr/share/doc; and I also have to wonder why this package has been added in Debian either, I don't think one-off dbg packages for applications are considered any more useful there.

- The nfdump package for whatever reason has unstripped binaries in /usr/bin - so apparently, both the Ubuntu buildd script to strip out dbgsym packages, and the package's own rules to create a -dbg package, are failing! This is more of an issue, since it bloats the package unnecessarily.

Perhaps you could work with the Debian maintainer to resolve at least the latterof these issues?

[Stefan Ebner (sebner)]

Of course. Thanks for the hint

[Stefan Ebner (sebner)]

Should fix at least the stripping issue.
Mind sponsoring it Steve?

Cheers

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package nfdump - 1.5.7-5ubuntu1

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nfdump (1.5.7-5ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Disable nostrip build option (LP: #268811)

 -- Stefan Ebner <email address hidden> Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:27:00 +0200