On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 16:14 -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 22-Apr-07, 14:39 (CDT), Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> wrote: > > > > I'd like to see all library source packages having a minimum of 4 > > binary packages required by Policy: the SONAME, the -dev, the -dbg and > > a -doc package. (Libraries for perl or other non-compiled languages > > would be exempt from -dbg packages but not -doc.) > > 1. Rather than cluttering the archive and Packages file with -dbg > packages that will (mostly) never be used, how about mandating a "debug" > target in library debian/rules files, so that when someone does need the > debug package, it's trivial to build. Since the person most likely to > need the target is the package maintainer, there would be some incentive > to make sure it works. Because segfaults are often not easily reproduced. Having the ability to analyse a crash that occured when the user did not have the -dbg packages installed is not possible unless you have the original symbols the compiler created. -Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>.
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