Bug#645455: Warn about packages in section debug with priority other than extra

[Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>]

On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 01:11:05AM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>, 2011-10-15, 15:53:
> >The "debug" section contains debugging symbols, which should
> >always have priority extra.  Policy specifically mentions them in
> >the description of priority extra.
> >
> >Please consider warning about any packages in section "debug" with any
> >priority higher than "extra".
> 
> We do check all packages named *-dbg for that
> (debug-package-should-be-priority-extra).

Ah, good to know.  And it looks like lintian also already checks that
any package containing debug symbols follows that naming convention,
which together check that any package containing debug symbols has
priority extra. :)

Neither of those ensure that such packages have section "debug", though.

> Incidentally, all the section:debug packages in unstable that don't
> follow this naming convention have already priority extra set.

I checked that myself as well. :)

Still might help to have a lintian warning to help keep it that way.

Ideally all of those packages should move to another section, and
"debug" should only contain detached debugging symbols, but a couple of
them (separate library versions with extra debugging) seem debatable.

- Josh Triplett