Re: [PATCH][RFC] gdb support in GRUB build system

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 08:50:45AM -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote:
> > Having debug symbols in the userland tools could be maybe a bit useful
> > for example in the case of the grub-probe segfault I experienced on my
> > mdraid experiments.
> 
> True, in that case it makes sense to include debug info

Agreed.  Furthermore, Debian packaging environment _expects_ packages to
include debug info by default;  this allows us (Debian) to define a common
variable interface to enable/disable debug symbols by toggling the scripts
that run strip after the build.

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