[Mageia-dev] [RFC] renaming -debug packages as -debuginfo

Mon Dec 3 11:20:25 CET 2012

'Twas brillig, and Christiaan Welvaart at 01/12/12 17:59 did gyre and
+gimble:
+> On Sat, 1 Dec 2012, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
+> 
+>> Every other distros name their debug packages as foobar-debuginfo.
+>> We name them foobar-debug instead.
+>>
+>> Due to this, we've to patch various packages (gdb, ...) for that.
+>> And we've to maintain those patches of course...
+>>
+>> What do you think about naming them -debuginfo like other distros
+>> do and drop those patches?
+> 
+> Will all -debuginfo packages get a Provides+Obsoletes on the -debug
+> package name? Otherwise we get a lot of orphan packages on users'
+> systems plus potential file conflicts between -debug and -debuginfo
+> packages.
+
+This would be nice if easily possible, but if not, then just some
+general advice of running "urpmq --not-available" would be a good enough
+fallback IMO.
+
+
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