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We are rebuilding python modules with a python-dbg variant.

Example packaging changes for python-pam:

diff -Nru /tmp/sH45lBGtVd/python-pam-0.4.2/debian/changelog /tmp/Bc2MXcIIa9/python-pam-0.4.2/debian/changelog
--- /tmp/sH45lBGtVd/python-pam-0.4.2/debian/changelog   2007-02-12 14:46:04.000000000 +0100
+++ /tmp/Bc2MXcIIa9/python-pam-0.4.2/debian/changelog   2007-02-13 16:54:40.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+python-pam (0.4.2-10.4ubuntu1) feisty; urgency=low
+
+  * Build the extension for the debug interpreter.
+    - Build-depend on python-all-dbg (>= 2.5-0ubuntu5)
+    - debian/control: New package python-pam-dbg.
+    - debian/control: python-pam: Suggest python-pam-dbg.
+    - debian/rules: Build the extension with the python debug interpreter.
+    - debian/rules: python-pam-dbg: symlink to python-pam's docdir.
+
+ -- Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com>  Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:56:23 +0100
+
 python-pam (0.4.2-10.4build1) feisty; urgency=low
 
   * Rebuild. Ubuntu #69967.
diff -Nru /tmp/sH45lBGtVd/python-pam-0.4.2/debian/control /tmp/Bc2MXcIIa9/python-pam-0.4.2/debian/control
--- /tmp/sH45lBGtVd/python-pam-0.4.2/debian/control     2006-06-29 08:06:01.000000000 +0200
+++ /tmp/Bc2MXcIIa9/python-pam-0.4.2/debian/control     2007-02-13 16:52:55.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 Source: python-pam
 Section: python
 Priority: optional
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5.0.37.2), python-all-dev (>= 2.3.5-11), libpam0g-dev
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5.0.37.2), python-all-dev (>= 2.3.5-11), python-all-dbg (>= 2.5-0ubuntu5), libpam0g-dev
 Maintainer: Dima Barsky <dima@debian.org>
-Standards-Version: 3.6.0
+Standards-Version: 3.7.2
+XS-Python-Version: all
 
 Package: python-pam
 Architecture: any
@@ -11,8 +12,20 @@
 Conflicts: python2.3-pam, python2.4-pam
 Replaces: python2.3-pam, python2.4-pam
 Provides: ${python:Provides}
+Suggests: python-pam-dbg
 XB-Python-Version: ${python:Versions}
 Description: A Python interface to the PAM library
  This module makes the PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) functions
  available in Python. With this module you can write Python applications
  that implement authentication services using PAM.
+
+Package: python-pam-dbg
+Architecture: any
+Depends: python-pam (= ${Source-Version})
+XB-Python-Version: ${python:Versions}
+Description: A Python interface to the PAM library (debug extension)
+ This module makes the PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) functions
+ available in Python. With this module you can write Python applications
+ that implement authentication services using PAM.
+ .
+ This package contains the extension built for the python debug interpreter.
diff -Nru /tmp/sH45lBGtVd/python-pam-0.4.2/debian/rules /tmp/Bc2MXcIIa9/python-pam-0.4.2/debian/rules
--- /tmp/sH45lBGtVd/python-pam-0.4.2/debian/rules       2006-06-25 17:34:03.000000000 +0200
+++ /tmp/Bc2MXcIIa9/python-pam-0.4.2/debian/rules       2007-02-13 13:53:10.000000000 +0100
@@ -10,15 +10,19 @@
 build: build-stamp
 build-stamp:
        dh_testdir
-       for python in $(PYVERS); \
-               do $$python setup.py build; \
+       set -e; \
+       for python in $(PYVERS); do \
+               $$python setup.py build; \
+               $$python-dbg setup.py build; \
        done
        touch build-stamp
 
 clean:
        dh_testdir
-       for python in $(PYVERS); \
-               do $$python setup.py clean; \
+       set -e; \
+       for python in $(PYVERS); do \
+               $$python setup.py clean; \
+               $$python-dbg setup.py clean; \
        done
        rm -rf build-stamp build
        dh_clean
@@ -29,9 +33,12 @@
        dh_clean -k
        dh_installdirs
 
-       for python in $(PYVERS); \
-               do $$python setup.py install --root=debian/python-pam; \
+       set -e; \
+       for python in $(PYVERS); do \
+               $$python setup.py install --root=debian/python-pam; \
+               $$python-dbg setup.py install --root=debian/python-pam-dbg; \
        done
+       find debian/python-pam-dbg ! -type d ! -name '*_d.so' | xargs rm -f
 
 # Build architecture-independent files here.
 binary-indep: build install
@@ -40,15 +47,16 @@
 binary-arch: build install
        dh_testdir
        dh_testroot
-       dh_installdocs -a -A AUTHORS README
-       dh_installexamples -a -A examples/*
+       dh_installdocs -a AUTHORS README
+       dh_installexamples -a examples/*
        dh_installchangelogs -a ChangeLog
-       dh_strip -a
+       rm -rf debian/python-pam-dbg/usr/share/doc/python-pam-dbg
+       ln -sf python-pam debian/python-pam-dbg/usr/share/doc/python-pam-dbg
+       dh_strip -a -Npython-pam-dbg --dbg-package=python-pam-dbg
        dh_compress -a
        dh_fixperms -a
-       #dh_pycentral is not needed as we don't have .py files (only a .so)
-       #dh_pycentral -a
-       dh_python -a
+       #dh_pycentral is needed to set the dependency on python
+       dh_pycentral -ppython-pam
        dh_installdeb -a
        dh_shlibdeps -a
        dh_gencontrol -a

The list was generated by running:

for i in `grep -E "\.so\ " Contents-i386 | grep python | cut -d' ' -f2-100 | sort -u`; do basename $i; done | xargs apt-cache showsrc | grep Package | sed 's/Package\:\ //g' | sort -u | xargs apt-cache showsrc | grep ^Dir | sort -u > ~/pydbg.list