Hello thread! /me puts on a package manager developer hat.
Sorry, I haven't read the whole thread, it's huge.
I think that diversion of debug packages out of current deb format is a
completely wrong direction. Do you want to teach all tools that get some info
about Debian packages that there is new 'ddeb' format packages? New .ddeb
extension? For a what sake?
Oh, no, and this covers not 3 packages. Let's count. The following command
counts reverse {predepends,depends,recommends} to apt (which contains
libapt-pkg) and to libcupt:
$ cupt rdepends apt libcupt-perl 2>/dev/null | grep Reverse | wc -l
63
To extract the info 'is this debug package?' you can use a good and easy
regular expression '.*-debug$' applied to package name (or any other suffix
you want).
Are there other reasons?
[Roger Leigh]
> I see no reason why they
> can't be first-class Debian packages
Fully agree.
While I support automatic generation of debug packages, creating a new format
for them sounds for me as creating new RFC for e-mails which bodies contain no
spaces and no Bcc header allowed. Why? To filter 'automatic debug mails'.
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Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
C++/Perl developer, Debian Maintainer
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