Re: Idea: Using ESSTRA for -dbgsym packages

[Dylan Aïssi <daissi@debian.org>]

Hi Niels,

On 8/7/25 19:18, Niels Thykier wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I noticed that apertis modified the `debhelper` source package for this. 
> This is of course a valid solution, I wanted to highlight that there 
> should be less need for that with DH_EXTRA_ADDONS environment variable.
>
> The ENV variable was developed for this purpose where people want to 
> prototype something new or when do custom builds. Obviously, migrating 
> to it now would only make sense if it would simplify matters when 
> maintaining the addon.
>
> Best regards,
> Niels

Thanks! I will take a look at DH_EXTRA_ADDONS, I guess it could simplify 
our work when will we have to rebase Apertis on a newer Debian release.

Best regards,
Dylan