On 2020-03-11 20:31, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On Wed 2020-03-11 21:42:43 +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > >> Every other debug symbol package in debian is named $foo-dbgsym. libc6 > >> seems to be the exception. > > > > Well libc6-dbg is not a standard dbgsym package: > > - It is a dependency for other packages > > - It is a build-dependency for other source packages > > - It is not an automatic debug package (ie using debhelper) as we need > > to strip libpthread.so and crt*.o differently. This means that the > > resulting package do not have the same properties. > > Thanks for outlining these differences. I expected that it would indeed > be different from others due to the unique position of libc, but i > didn't know the details. > > >> Can we please rename this package (along with a transitional package to > >> help folks upgrade from libc6-dbg) and set up an appropriate Provides: > >> at least? > > > > With all the above said, I am not sure it's something we can do. However > > I don't know who can actually answer that question. > > What about just adding a Provides: libc6-dbgsym to the package? That > should make it findable at least, for people who are now used to the > convention that foo's debug symbols are in foo-dbgsym. That would clearly work for your use case. Now I am not sure it won't break other things. I asked on IRC and so far only get the confirmation that the package shall not be renamed to libc6-dbgsym. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurelien@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
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