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

[Thomas Backlund]

Anssi Hannula skrev 1.12.2012 16:07:
> 01.12.2012 14:41, Thierry Vignaud kirjoitti:
>> Hi
>>
>> 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?
>
> Seems reasonable, but looks like the transition period might cause
> problems, since you don't know if you need foo-debug or foo-debuginfo.
>

Well, if we do it right before we do the full rebuild, the transition
period will be somewhat short...

not to mention we have "minidebuginfo" already in place so even
without -debug packages there should be somewhat helpful backtraces...


But I think we'll postpone the full rebuild after beta1 so I can
get a few updates to gcc & binutils and kernel-3.7 headers + glibc
rebuild as "base" for the rebuild...

pterjan is already doing pre-rebuild tests so people can focus on
fixing those issues before we start pushing the rebuild to the
mirrors...

--
Thomas