Russ Allbery dijo [Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 05:51:33PM -0700]: > > You can build a .ddeb manually, yes. However for some cases > > (e.g. packages using debhelper and building ELF binaries) a .ddeb will > > be automatically created (if none is created manually) and detached > > debugging symbols will be put there. I'll try to automatize other > > languages too, so that having full archive coverage is as simpler as > > possible. > > Could you explain a bit more about what merits you see in creating > something that we call a different type of package rather than just > listing debug packages in debian/control and building them as we do now > and handling section debug specially in the archive software? Is it just > the avoiding of the need to add a bunch of debian/control entries?
I would add: • .ddebs could be autobuilt — I am not familiar with the procedure, but I suppose a debian/control field would indicate whether this package allows being built as a .ddeb (as there would be no way i.e. to build a Perl module as a ddeb) • Less namespace explosion. We would get rid of all the -debug packages. -- Gunnar Wolf • gw...@gwolf.org • (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
