Bug#882154: lintian: Raise level for -dbg packages

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On Sun, 19 Nov 2017 18:14:54 +0100 Christoph Biedl
<debian.axhn@manchmal.in-ulm.de> wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.5.59
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> as you know the concept of manually maintained -dbg packages has been
> superseeded by automatically created -dbgsym ones during the stretch
> development cycle.
> 
> So I was about to propose a warning for -dbg packages just to find it's
> already implemented as debian-control-has-obsolete-dbg-package - but
> marked experimental.
> 
> In my opinion the severity should be raised, and actually above warning
> level.
> 
> Related, unless there's still a situation where -dbg packages serve a
> purpose - I'm not aware of such and cannot think of any either - I
> wouldn't mind if ftp-master starts to autoreject such packages, perhaps
> with NMUs as an exception.
> 
>     Christoph

I suspect it is too early to make -dbg an auto-reject.

To my knowledge, the -dbg packages are in certain cases still useful.  I
believe that e.g. valgrind requires the -dbg package from libc during
builds.  As it cannot Build-Depend on a -dbgsym package, the libc-dbg
package probably still have to live for now.


Thanks,
~Niels