'Twas brillig, and Christiaan Welvaart at 01/12/12 17:59 did gyre and gimble: > 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.
This would be nice if easily possible, but if not, then just some general advice of running "urpmq --not-available" would be a good enough fallback IMO. -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/