Re: ddebs

[Philipp Kern <trash@philkern.de>]

On 2011-03-25, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org> wrote:
> On 25/03/11 22:24, Torsten Werner wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
>> <pochu@debian.org> wrote:
>>> http://people.debian.org/~pochu/debhelper_8.1.2+nmu1_all.deb
>> Thanks. The name of the ddeb for gzip is gzip-ddeb. Can we rely on
>> that schema or is there another way to find the name of a deb package
>> from its ddeb package? Rationale: whenever a ddeb gets uploaded we
>> need to check if there is already a matching deb in the archive (or at
>> least in the same upload). If not we will reject the upload.
> The way I did it was one .ddeb per source package, not per binary. So it is
> $src-ddeb. You can reject them if they are not for $src package (or if $src
> package doesn't exist in the archive).

Are there dependencies from the -ddeb to the binary?  Because you'd want to
update/upgrade your ddeb when you update the library, otherwise it becomes
useless.  I imagine there can't be given that the binaries of our source
package might not be co-installable.

Is there a rationale why this was done differently from Ubuntu?

Kind regards
Philipp Kern