On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 08:44:15AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:43:17PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 04:08:15PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > > > Please consider renaming perl-debug to perl-dbg. > > > "A debug package is a package with a name ending in -dbg, that contains > > additional information that gdb can use". > > I believe the history here is that perl-debug was originally just > /usr/bin/debugperl and the gdb detached symbols came later. See #433631. > Not sure when we dropped libperld.a. > > IMO the perl-dbg name emphasizes the gdb symbols rather than the separate > binary. But I don't really care much. > > I wonder if we should have a libperl5.14-dbg package too, but if the > actual policy doesn't mandate much, I suppose it'd be overkill. > > > Sounds entirely reasonable and fairly un-disruptive. I guess we'll > > want a transitional dummy package for a release cycle, but there are > > no reverse deps. > > Ack on the transitional package. > > > Also, the package description should probably be revised, since it > > doesn't make explicit mention of debugging symbols, only enabling > > debugging features within perl. > > > > Any objections to doing this now, for transition into unstable with > > whichever of 5.16/5.18 we end up with? > > No objections, it just never seemed worth the effort and ddebs were > always "coming soon."
I started this, but it wasn't quite as straightforward as hoped owing to the hand-crafted rules file. I've pushed my work to dom/rename-perl-debug and will probably pick it up at some point (it mostly works, but the transition package isn't built correctly). http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=perl/perl.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/dom/rename-perl-debug -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
