Re: Build-Depends: foo-dbg ?

[Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>]

On Wed, May 06, 2009, Neil Williams wrote:
> (See python-gtk2 for one example. python-all-dbg is small but
> python-numpy-dbg is 15Mb!)

 pythonx.y-dbg is ABI incompatible with pythonx.y and we need to bdep on
 pythonx.y-dbg to build a -dbg for a python extension -- these are *not*
 detached debugging symbols, but an alternate implementation of the
 module which will only work with debug versions of python.

 Because of this ABI difference, if you need to use python-foo to build
 python-bar, then you need a python-foo-dbg and to bdep on it to build
 python-bar-dbg.

   Cheers
-- 
Loïc Minier