Re: Suspicious file changes in -dbg between old and new packages

[Gianfranco Costamagna <costamagnagianfranco@yahoo.it>]

Hi Niels,



>The debug package needs a strictly equal dependency on the original
>package, such as: "foo (= ${binary:Version})".  That is orthogonal to
>the usage of build-ids (that is, you must use the strictly equal with or
>without build-id based debug paths).


sure, I guess lintian even complains otherwise

>As for the build-id and how it is computed.  It is based on the
>internals of the ELF binary including but not limited to:
>
>* The path where the binaries were compiled
>* The options given to gcc when compiled
>* Time and day, if such are included in the code (__DATE__ macros
>   and such).


So how did it work for Thomas with the previous version installed?

/me is confused :)



cheers,

G.