Debian debugging notes for "Reporting Bugs" page

[Andrew Lau <netsnipe users sourceforge net>]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 11:57:03PM +1100, Andrew Lau wrote:

Could someone please post the following notice for Debian GNU/Linux
users to <http://balsa.gnome.org/bugs.html>:

The binaries in all Debian packages have their debugging symbols
stripped to save space on their mirrors. If you'd like to use a Balsa
Debian package with them left in, you may rebuild the package as
follows. (# as root, $ as user)

1. Check /etc/apt/sources.list for a deb-src line matching your Debian
   mirror.
   eg. deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free

   # apt-get update

2. Install packages required to build balsa.

   # apt-get install fakeroot
   # apt-get build-dep balsa

3. Build the package.
   $ DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip fakeroot apt-get source --build balsa

4. Install newly built Balsa debugging packages
   # dpkg -i balsa*.deb

Cheers,
Andrew "Netsnipe" Lau

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