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Bug#299578: lintian: check that -dbg packages are using separate debugging info



Matt Taggart <taggart@debian.org> writes:

> That check is good, but what I was thinking with the original bug is that 
> you should check the binaries for the ".gnu_debuglink" and make sure that 
> what it's pointing at exists and is in the right place in the -dbg package.

It's unfortunately fairly hard for lintian to do this since lintian checks
one package at a time and would need to do cross-package checking to match
up the binaries with the -dbg package.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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