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A problem related to debuginfo was found in the iptables-1.4.7-4.el6 package. This issue might affect crash analysis done by Automatic Bug Reporting Tool and its retrace server, and also prevent proper debugging of crashes via GDB. When a binary is compiled without gcc's -g option, no debugging information is generated and rpmbuild creates almost-empty debuginfo file, which cannot be used for debugging. Please fix the package build process to use $RPM_OPT_FLAGS, which include the -g option among others. path: /usr/lib/debug/lib/libiptc.so.0.0.0.debug package: iptables-debuginfo-1.4.7-4.el6.i686 This issue can be investigated and tested by using eu-readelf tool from the elfutils package. Use `eu-readelf --section-headers /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/<debuginfofile>.debug` to see if debuginfo file contains .debug_info section. It is supposed to be there. (This bug was detected and filed by a script.)
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libiptc can not provide debug informaiton, because there is no code compiled into it. It is an empty library that depends on libip4tc and libip6tc. The libs libip4tc and libip6tc have debugging symbols. Closing as not a bug.