provide symbol dbg package (Linux)

[mixxxbot]

Reported by: daschuer
Date: 2013-01-09T12:09:28Z
Status: Fix Released
Importance: Wishlist
Launchpad Issue: lp1097703
Tags: buildserver, polish

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When hunting bugs sometimes the produced back traces from the users are not that significant because our build server produces striped version of Mixxx.

It would be nice, if the build server can also produce the symbol or map files. So that we at least are able to interpret the the addresses from provided back traces .

The best would be to provide a mixxx-dbg.deb that will install the symbol files at user's machine.

[mixxxbot]

Commented by: daschuer
Date: 2013-01-09T12:23:02Z

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Is it enought to use pkg_create_dbgsym during the build?

[mixxxbot]

Commented by: daschuer
Date: 2014-04-02T07:12:48Z

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Is this a candidate foe 1.12?

[mixxxbot]

Commented by: daschuer
Date: 2015-02-01T13:04:55Z

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It is now available at
https://launchpad.net/~nschloe/+archive/ubuntu/mixxx-nightly

Set the status at in progress for now since our stable ppa should have the debug symbols as well.

[mixxxbot]

Commented by: rryan
Date: 2015-02-15T22:36:45Z

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Hm, I didn't realize our debs stripped the binaries. I think we can just remove dh_strip from our debian rules file.

[mixxxbot]

Commented by: daschuer
Date: 2015-02-16T07:14:43Z

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I would prefer to provide a dbg package, because this is will be the standard when shipped by a distribution.
Nico has a solution. Can we adopt it?

[mixxxbot]

Commented by: daschuer
Date: 2015-05-18T08:55:20Z

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Status:
Debug packages are available here:
https://launchpad.net/~nschloe/+archive/ubuntu/mixxx-nightly
But not here:
https://launchpad.net/~mixxx/+archive/ubuntu/nightlies/

What is to do to have them at the second repository as well?

[mixxxbot]

Commented by: daschuer
Date: 2015-05-18T09:08:25Z

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The same on windows: Bug #⁠1456107
How is the status on mac?

[mixxxbot]

Commented by: daschuer
Date: 2015-09-14T06:21:41Z

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This bug blocks a solution for other bugs like this:
Bug #⁠1495317

@ywwg: can you provide a mixxx-dbg.deb from our build server? 
Are we able to create a map file for 
Mixxx "1.12.0-beta1" "(git 1.12 r5545; built on: Sep  2 2015 @ 04:11:05;
This will help on Bug #1495317

[mixxxbot]

Commented by: daschuer
Date: 2015-09-15T06:48:55Z

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Who has access to
https://launchpad.net/~mixxx/+archive/ubuntu/mixxxbetas/+packages
https://launchpad.net/~mixxx/+archive/ubuntu/nightlies
and can add a dbg package like Nico did on his ppa?

[mixxxbot]

Commented by: rryan
Date: 2015-12-31T16:30:05Z

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Nico -- what did you have to change to get this working?

[mixxxbot]

Commented by: nschloe
Date: 2016-01-03T23:36:42Z

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On the PPA page:

Change Details -> Build debug symbols

and/or

Change Details -> Publish debug symbols

Both are off on https://launchpad.net/~nschloe/+archive/ubuntu/mixxx-nightly which has me a little confused, but anyhow that's probably what you should try.

[mixxxbot]

Commented by: rryan
Date: 2018-09-19T20:38:25Z

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I just enabled 'Build debug symbols' and 'Publish debug symbols' for all 3 of our official PPAs.

[mixxxbot]

Commented by: rryan
Date: 2018-09-20T23:19:47Z

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Latest beta builds have a "mixxx-dbgsym" package alongside "mixxx":
https://launchpad.net/~mixxx/+archive/ubuntu/mixxxbetas/+packages

[mixxxbot]

Issue closed with status Fix Released.