Lintian tag: debug-file-with-no-debug-symbols

Type: warning

Description (from lintian-explain-tags)

The binary is installed as a detached "debug symbols" ELF file, but it
does not appear to have debug information associated with it.

A common cause is not passing -g to GCC when compiling.

Implementation detail: Lintian checks for the ".debug_line" and the
".debug_str" sections. If either of these are present, the binary is
assumed to contain debug information.

Please refer to Bug#668437 for details.

Visibility: warning
Show-Always: no
Check: binaries/debug-symbols/detached

Show affected packages