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@@ -6243,6 +6243,15 @@ system and gives an overview of their function and contents.
       install, the build system does not generate an error. This variable
       is generally not user-defined.
 
+   :term:`PACKAGE_KEEP_DEBUG_FRAME`
+      Keep the ``.debug_frame`` ELF section when stripping during package
+      creation. You can set this variable in your ``local.conf`` file::
+
+        PACKAGE_KEEP_DEBUG_FRAME = "1"
+
+      That will result in passing the ``--keep-section=.debug_frame`` argument
+      to the ``strip`` command.
+
    :term:`PACKAGE_PREPROCESS_FUNCS`
       Specifies a list of functions run to pre-process the
       :term:`PKGD` directory prior to splitting the files out