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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] [RFC] renaming -debug packages as -debuginfo</H1>
    <B>Colin Guthrie</B> 
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<PRE>'Twas brillig, and Christiaan Welvaart at 01/12/12 17:59 did gyre and
gimble:
&gt;<i> On Sat, 1 Dec 2012, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Every other distros name their debug packages as foobar-debuginfo.
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> We name them foobar-debug instead.
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Due to this, we've to patch various packages (gdb, ...) for that.
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> And we've to maintain those patches of course...
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> What do you think about naming them -debuginfo like other distros
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> do and drop those patches?
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Will all -debuginfo packages get a Provides+Obsoletes on the -debug
</I>&gt;<i> package name? Otherwise we get a lot of orphan packages on users'
</I>&gt;<i> systems plus potential file conflicts between -debug and -debuginfo
</I>&gt;<i> packages.
</I>
This would be nice if easily possible, but if not, then just some
general advice of running &quot;urpmq --not-available&quot; would be a good enough
fallback IMO.


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