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Bug#420540: should document how to create -dbg packages



Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
> Note that the Debian package should depend on the package that it
> provides debugging symbols for, and this dependency should be versioned.
> For example:
>
> Depends: libfoo-dbg (= ${binary:Version})

This example is confusing, if libfoo-dbg is the package that provides 
debugging symbols for the package libfoo, then libfoo-dbg's Depends should 
be:

Depends: libfoo (= ${binary:Version})

Othwerwise it makes no sense to have the debugging symbols in an other package 
since the libfoo package would always pulls the libfoo-dbg package in.
I would change the example above to something like:

Package: libfoo-dbg
...
Depends: libfoo (= ${binary:Version})

Grüße,
Frank

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