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

Christiaan Welvaart cjw at daneel.dyndns.org
Sat Dec 1 18:59:13 CET 2012


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.


     Christiaan


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