Nixos: How do I get get a python with debug info included with packages?

I'm trying to do cython debugging on NixOS. I can easily install cython in a nix-shell (chosen for simplicity of example), like this:

$ nix-shell -p 'python27.withPackages( p: [ p.cython ])'

$ cat /nix/store/s0w3phb2saixi0a9bzk8pjbczjaz8d7r-python-2.7.14-env/bin/python
#! /nix/store/jgw8hxx7wzkyhb2dr9hwsd9h2caaasdc-bash-4.4-p12/bin/bash -e
export PYTHONHOME="/nix/store/s0w3phb2saixi0a9bzk8pjbczjaz8d7r-python-2.7.14-env"
export PYTHONNOUSERSITE="true"
exec "/nix/store/i3bx1iw2d0i3vh9sa1nf92ynlrw324w8-python-2.7.14/bin/python"  "${extraFlagsArray[@]}" "$@"

Then we do a normal nix-shell of just python and see what version of python we get.

[henry@bollum:~/Projects/eyeserver/nixshell]$ nix-shell -p 'python27'
$ which python
/nix/store/i3bx1iw2d0i3vh9sa1nf92ynlrw324w8-python-2.7.14/bin/python
#          ^^^^^^^
#          non-debug

All is well -- we get a non-debug python in both cases. And if we gdb it, we get (no debugging symbols found). See the last line.

$ gdb 
/nix/store/i3bx1iw2d0i3vh9sa1nf92ynlrw324w8-python-2.7.14/bin/python
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Reading symbols from /nix/store/i3bx1iw2d0i3vh9sa1nf92ynlrw324w8-python-2.7.14/bin/python...(no debugging symbols found)...done.

When we use enableDebugging, on python by itself, we get different results. $ nix-shell -p 'enableDebugging python27'

$ which python
/nix/store/a4wd8mcpqr54hmw0x95fw8fhvk8avh5a-python-2.7.14/bin/python
#          ^^^^^^
#          debug

$ gdb 
/nix/store/a4wd8mcpqr54hmw0x95fw8fhvk8avh5a-python-2.7.14/bin/python
GNU gdb (GDB) 8.0.1
...
Reading symbols from /nix/store/a4wd8mcpqr54hmw0x95fw8fhvk8avh5a-python-2.7.14/bin/python...done.

The problems come when we try to do this with cython (or any other package) included.
$ nix-shell -p '(enableDebugging python27).withPackages( p: [ p.cython ])'

$ cat `which python`
#! /nix/store/jgw8hxx7wzkyhb2dr9hwsd9h2caaasdc-bash-4.4-p12/bin/bash -e
export PYTHONHOME="/nix/store/s0w3phb2saixi0a9bzk8pjbczjaz8d7r-python-2.7.14-env"
export PYTHONNOUSERSITE="true"
exec "/nix/store/i3bx1iw2d0i3vh9sa1nf92ynlrw324w8-python-2.7.14/bin/python"  "${extraFlagsArray[@]}" "$@"
#                ^^^^^^^
#                non-debug
$ gdb /nix/store/i3bx1iw2d0i3vh9sa1nf92ynlrw324w8-python-2.7.14/bin/python
GNU gdb (GDB) 8.0.1
...
Reading symbols from /nix/store/i3bx1iw2d0i3vh9sa1nf92ynlrw324w8-python-2.7.14/bin/python...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) 
quit

The version of python in the environment is now non-debug, and attempting to debug it gets the dreaded (no debugging symbols found). This makes gdb much less useful for debugging cython programs.

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