On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 08:17:32AM -0400, Ken Brown wrote: >There's been discussion on the cygwin list about packages containing >debug symbols, most recently in > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-02/threads.html#00536 > >where the consensus (I think) was that package maintainers could provide >such packages if they wanted to. I would like to provide a package >containing debug symbols for emacs-*.exe, but I'm not sure what to call >it. The thread I just cited discussed *-debuginfo. But since then >Reini has released perl_debuginfo, and Corinna has released >cygwin-debug. Could/should we standardize these names? I don't know >whether to call my new package emacs-debuginfo, emacs_debuginfo, or >emacs-debug. My personal preference is the last one, simply because >it's short.
I believe that Fedora and others use "-debuginfo" and I think we should stick with that. cgf
