Can’t Install Package Asterisk-dbgsym On Stretch

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Hello,

On a fresh Debian Stretch setup, I have:
$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d//dbgsym.list deb http://debug.mirrors.debian.org/debian-debug/ stretch-debug main

# apt-get update
…
# apt-get install asterisk gdb

# apt-get -s install asterisk-dbgsym
… asterisk-dbgsym : Depends: asterisk (= 1:13.14.1~dfsg-2+deb9u1) but
1:13.14.1~dfsg-2+deb9u2 should be installed

(above output is translated from the output I had)

1. Is this a bug in debian-debug repo ? If positive, should I file a bug report ?

2. Is correct to understand that to get DONT_OPTIMZE, BETTER_BACKTRACE and so on options compiled in, I must recompile anyway ?

Regards

2 thoughts on - Can’t Install Package Asterisk-dbgsym On Stretch

  • As far as I know the deb debug package just contains debugging symbols
    (before these are stripped), you still need the normal asterisk packages with the binaries. The last time I tried to debug with these packages it was a waste of time since your not running a version with debugging options. These debug packages show some extra info in gdb traces, but lots of important stuff is still optimized away.

    If you need to debug install the source package and compile from there. You might want to figure out how to manipulate the deb build rules to include wanted flags, shouldn’t be to hard but it has been a few years for myself.

  • You seem to mix two versions.

    apt-cache policy asterisk
    apt-cache policy asterisk-dbgsym

    (Hint: LC_ALL=C )

    rmadison shows me now that the versions of asterisk is
    1:13.14.1~dfsg-2+deb9u2 in both the stable and the stable-debug repos.

    Right. DONT_OPTIMZE has a considerable performance impact. I never considered BETTER_BACKTRACE and its performance impact. Is it independent of DONT_OPTIMZE?