[debhelper-devel] Bug#843769: debhelper: dgbsym package contains the wrong symbols

[Tino Mettler]

Package: debhelper
Version: 10.2.2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I tried to use the xca-dbgsym package and discovered that it contained the
wrong symbols.  The package uses a simple rules file that invokes all
default dh_* steps.

I analysed it in a chroot and came to the following conclusion:

1. the build ID of the xca binary (the only binary in the package) is
   736a4c65440b1dcfa898ca95a236c273dba8f06f

2. dh_strip created
   /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/04/a18d979aaa63ae0f23ecf5578b59b4369c29eb.debug

3. there is a binary called xca_db_stat in the build which is not contained
   in the binary package, but this binary has the build ID
   04a18d979aaa63ae0f23ecf5578b59b4369c29eb

It looks like dh_strip uses the wrong binary for extracting the debug
symbols.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.8.4 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii  autotools-dev            20160430.1
ii  binutils                 2.27.51.20161105-2
ii  dh-autoreconf            12
ii  dh-strip-nondeterminism  0.028-1
ii  dpkg                     1.18.13
ii  dpkg-dev                 1.18.13
ii  file                     1:5.29-1
ii  libdpkg-perl             1.18.13
ii  man-db                   2.7.5-1
ii  perl                     5.24.1~rc3-3
ii  po-debconf               1.0.20

debhelper recommends no packages.

Versions of packages debhelper suggests:
pn  dh-make  <none>

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