Building package using debug profile

[jszwedko]

Is it possible to change the profile that cargo deb uses from release? We build packages in CI as part of some correctness tests and would like to improve their build times by just using the debug build profile.

I attempted to export PROFILE=debug, but cargo deb still seems to build using release.

[kornelski]

It uses release profile only. There's a flag to skip building completely, but it will look for binaries in target/release anyway.

Maybe you can change opt-level of the release profile?

[jszwedko]

Yeah, that's a reasonable work-around. Thanks for suggesting @kornelski