How do I rebuild a package to include debugging information?

Question

I want to rebuild a package to include debugging symbols, how would I do that? There is no -dbg package available and also no -dbgsym package from the ddebs repository.

Answer 1

You can do this in just a few steps:

1. Get the necessary tools and build dependencies:

   sudo apt-get install devscripts fakeroot
   sudo apt-get build-dep <package>
   

2. Set the build options:

   export DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="debug nostrip noopt"
   

3. Build the package:

   fakeroot apt-get source -b <package>
   

4. Install the package:

   sudo dpkg -i <package>*.deb
   

Answer 2

Alternatively install the pkg-create-dbgsym package.