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Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?



On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 21:44:28 +0200
Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org> wrote:

> > Certain packages have already had bug reports requesting a -dbg
> > package.
>
> I'd rather see some offline debug-symbol infrastructure for all
> packages implemented, so that you can download the debug symbols when
> you need them.

But the -dbg package only depends on the same version of the library -
the library won't depend on the -dbg so those who need the -dbg are the
only ones who would download and install them.

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