Comment # 7 on bug 1201107 from Ralf Habacker

(In reply to Jan Engelhardt from comment #6)
> I looked at Fedora what they're doing. There is no use of breakpad's
> dump_syms program at all, so I think it should just be removed from openSUSE.

A look into the file /usr/lib/rpm/mingw32-find-debuginfo.sh shows that the
*.sym files are used to find the corresponding source files and add them to the
debug package:

       # breakpad symbols
        symfile=`"$host-gen_sym_files" "$f" "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT$SYMBOL_DIR"`
        echo $symfile
        # grep all listed source files belonging to this package into temporary
source file list
        cat $symfile | grep "FILE" | cut -d' ' -f3 | grep $srcdir >>
$SOURCEFILE.tmp
        # remap file path in symbol file to src debug location
        # we remap all files to make finding src files from other packages
possible
        sed -i "s,$BUILDDIR,$DEBUGSOURCE_DIR,g" $symfile