Bug#645455: Warn about packages in section debug with priority other than extra

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>, 2011-10-15, 18:03:
> > > The "debug" section contains debugging symbols, which should always 
> > > have priority extra.  Policy specifically mentions them in the 
> > > description of priority extra.
> > >
> > > Please consider warning about any packages in section "debug" with 
> > > any priority higher than "extra".
> >
> > We do check all packages named *-dbg for that 
> > (debug-package-should-be-priority-extra).
>
> Ah, good to know.  And it looks like lintian also already checks that 
> any package containing debug symbols follows that naming convention, 
> which together check that any package containing debug symbols has 
> priority extra. :)

Right, that's debug-package-should-be-named-dbg.

> Neither of those ensure that such packages have section "debug", 
> though.

There is wrong-section-according-to-package-name, which should trigger 
for all *-dbg packages that are not in section "debug".

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Jakub Wilk