Russ Allbery wrote: > Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com> writes: > >> You can build a .ddeb manually, yes. However for some cases >> (e.g. packages using debhelper and building ELF binaries) a .ddeb will >> be automatically created (if none is created manually) and detached >> debugging symbols will be put there. I'll try to automatize other >> languages too, so that having full archive coverage is as simpler as >> possible. > > Could you explain a bit more about what merits you see in creating > something that we call a different type of package rather than just > listing debug packages in debian/control and building them as we do now > and handling section debug specially in the archive software? Is it just > the avoiding of the need to add a bunch of debian/control entries? Yes, automatically doing it is the main idea. And by automatically I mean with zero changes, not even adding a package to debian/control. We will still support packages listing ddebs in debian/control and building them manually of course, since we can't cover 100% of the archive automagically. Emilio
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