On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 11:45:24AM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2021/02/02 10:05, Marc Espie wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 09:50:50PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > > You are correct that it will require bumping every port that has > > > debug packages. It might be better to only change the comment > > > if it's too long (so that existing ones aren't changed). > > > > Actually, I'm not sure it's strictly required. In fact it's not. > > > > See, debug packages don't go through register-plist, so changes > > are not really a problem with them. > > Oh, that's a bit of luck!
More of a design property actually :) There's an explicit test in the packaging loop to avoid registering debug-packages, for several reasons - their packing-lists don't exist independently of normal packages - I don't think you'd fancy twice that many files in the plist directory - it allowed for rapid development while in-tree, as the generating code has had to evolve several times.
