Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?
On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:29:55 -0400, Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> said:
> So while I'd love to have a way to have -dbg packages available for
> every binary, I actually am happy with this proposal to do it for only
> every library (plus whatever other binaries really need it). And it's
> a direction we're already moving in, with, as I mentioned, 227
> lib*-dbg packages already in the archive. That's more than 10% of all
> our libraries already done[3].
So, making it a should would make 90% of our library packages
insta-buggy.
> So I suggest that we take this as an existing practice, document it as
> a "should" in policy for now, document *how* to do separated debugging
> symbols in the developers reference (which does not currently seem to
> mention it at all), and go add -dbg versions of our library packages.
I would rather add it as a recommended practice in policy, with a
note that it will become a should/must as we get better coverage, and
_also_ provide examples of what maintainers need to do to create
separate debugging symbol packages in an informative footnote.
manoj
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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/>
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