Hi, All right. Having been educated about the new build-id mechanism, I think there is not reason for policy to prohibit either approach, or to settle on one or the other.
To recap: 1) packages with detached debugging symbols should be named ${package name}-${debug suffix}. As a corollary, no ordinary packages names may end in ${debug suffix}. 2) These packages may just symlink /usr/share/doc/${package name}-${debug suffix} to /usr/share/doc/${package name} (and of course, depend on ${package name} 3) The detached debugging symbols should be placed in a subdirectory of /usr/lib/debug, the exact path being determined by the mechanism used (either build ids or debug links can and may be used) 4) Otherwise, these packages are normal debian packages The ${debug suffix} nay be ddeb, or something else to be decided. Comments? manoj -- Well, it's hard for a mere man to believe that woman doesn't have equal rights. Dwight D. Eisenhower Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org