Bug#299578: lintian: check that -dbg packages are using separate debugging info
> 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.
Ah right, darn.
I guess it could at least do some sanity checks on the value of
".gnu_debuglink" but I don't know it it would catch much. If someone is
bothering to use it I would expect they are probably already using it
correctly anyway.
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Matt Taggart
taggart@debian.org
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