Bug#907423: lintian should give an error when both foo-dbg and foo-dbgsym are built

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org>]

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 09:18:43PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
> 
> > lintian should give an error when both foo-dbg and foo-dbgsym are
> > built
> 
> Could you provide another draft description? Thank you in advance.

Both -dbg and -dbgsym are built for this package.
Only one should be built for the debug symbols.

Usually the -dbg should be dropped in favour of the -dbgsym.

In some cases (e.g. for Python modules) the -dbg contains more than just 
the debug symbols. In these cases the -dbgsym should not be built.

> Regards,

cu
Adrian

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