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

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org>]

On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 06:14:54PM +0100, Christoph Biedl wrote:
>...
> 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.

There are various reasons where -dbg packages are still required.

One example are the python -dbg packages that also use python-dbg.

Another example are -dbg packages that have reverse dependencies.

>     Christoph

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Adrian

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