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

Thomas Backlund tmb at mageia.org
Sat Dec 1 15:03:17 CET 2012


Nicolas Lécureuil skrev 1.12.2012 15:24:
> Le samedi 1 décembre 2012 13:41:51 Thierry Vignaud a écrit :
>> 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?
>>
>> See you
>
> i don't see any pb with this change and this will help removing patches, so i
> am all for it :)
>

I dont see any problem with it either, but before you do we need to 
update youri so it knows to put -debuginfo packages in debug media too
so we dont flood core media...

--
Thomas



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