Re: Package relationships for python debug packages
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:23:35 +1100, Ben Finney
<ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
wrote:
> Howdy all,
>
> What relationship should be declared between a binary ‘python-foo-dbg’
> package and the ‘python-dbg’ package?
>
> I can't remember the rationale, but the consensus was not what I
> expected. Should the binary package ‘Depends: python-dbg’, or should it
> instead ‘Recommends: python-dbg’? What's the rationale?
In http://wiki.debian.org/Python/DbgBuilds, we argued for ‘Recommends:
python-dbg’ if the package can be used without the debug interpreter (eg:
it contains the stripped debugging symbols for use with gdb); otherwise,
‘Depends: python-dbg’.
Christian
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