On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 6:15 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

On Monday 2015-11-09 00:07, Neal Gompa wrote:

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This issue comes from a change in behavior from RPM 4.13. It'll propagate into OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and other distros soon enough.

If you want to tell it to not generate debug information, add the following to your spec:

%global debug_package %{nil}

This will tell _every_ distribution target capable of generating debuginfo packages to not do so.

And will therefore probably lead to a giant fireball, because OBS is in charge of enabling/disabling the debug flags. Whenever there was a debuginfo issue in OBS, removal of any override like the one you suggest made the errors go away.

Well, unfortunately, RPM no longer allows for empty debuginfo packages. This was permitted in RPM < 4.13, which allowed people to make packages like OP did. If you *know* that a package isn't going to have debug info, then set it and put a comment explaining why it is there. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+owner@opensuse.org

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 3:16 AM, Fred Kiefer wrote:

Am 09.11.2015 um 00:18 schrieb Neal Gompa :

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On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 6:15 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

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On Monday 2015-11-09 00:07, Neal Gompa wrote: This issue comes from a change in behavior from RPM 4.13. It'll propagate into OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and other distros soon enough.

If you want to tell it to not generate debug information, add the following to your spec:

%global debug_package %{nil}

This will tell _every_ distribution target capable of generating debuginfo packages to not do so.

And will therefore probably lead to a giant fireball, because OBS is in charge of enabling/disabling the debug flags. Whenever there was a debuginfo issue in OBS, removal of any override like the one you suggest made the errors go away.

Well, unfortunately, RPM no longer allows for empty debuginfo packages. This was permitted in RPM < 4.13, which allowed people to make packages like OP did. If you *know* that a package isn't going to have debug info, then set it and put a comment explaining why it is there.

Thank you for the advice and the detailed explanation. The packages are still rebuilding, so far it looks pretty good. I will have to make that change on a few other packages as well.

One follow up question: In the package gnustep-libobjc2, the only one we compile with clang, there is the same issue with missing debug files, but in that case there should be. Is it possible that the mechanism does not work with clang?

As far as I know, clang does support generating debug info, as long as you're not telling the compiler to strip it out before it finishes the build (and rpmbuild takes over from there, where it'll split the debug symbols out). -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+owner@opensuse.org