Bug#884152: lintian: report about mismatches between the Build-IDs field and the content of /usr/lib/debug/

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

Control: reassign -1 debhelper
Control: retitle -1 debhelper: Fix build-id generation with --dbg-pkg


On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 14:21:37 +0800 Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Some packages (libc6-dbg, libkrb5-dbg, libsqlite3-0-dbg for eg) have
> mismatches between the Build-IDs field and the content of the
> /usr/lib/debug/ directory. The Build-IDs field is supposed to be
> derived from the content of the /usr/lib/debug/ directory so they
> should match exactly.
> 
> [...]
> 
> -- 
> bye,
> pabs
> 
> https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise


I am moving this to debhelper.  A maintainer does not and cannot
influence this. The bug has to be fixed in debhelper and a lintian tag
would simply serve to annoy people about a bug they cannot fix.

Thanks,
~Niels