Re: Bug#43787: changed title, and remade the proposed change
On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 06:10:06PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> What I mean by that is, if we just say that policy suggests building without
> -g, then some package maintainers _will_ implement a way of getting debuggable
> binaries (or objects as your may be). We want this implementation to stay
> fairly standard, thus the suggested way should be in policy.
Why not make the suggestion a requirement. _If_ the package supports
building with debugging symbols, then it has to be implemented by querying
the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS variable.
I see a) no technical reason to allow other procedures to implement this.
b) Allowing other procedures defeats the purpose of a satndard
document.
This is why I think a suggestion is too weak. You can equally well remove
the suggestion, because I can't rely on it and have to check always if a
package follows the policy suggestion or does it differently.
Thanks,
Marcus
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