On Wed, 2013-09-25 at 19:18 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 September 2013 06:58 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> >> Hello Ben,
> >> > 
> >> > systemtap would like to have the linux-image dbg packages available, for
> >> > full functionality. Currently there's no virtual package for it.
> >> > Would it make sense to introduce a virtual -dbg package ?
> > This would result in the same sort of problem.  But I could add a
> > metapackage built from linux-latest, so that the -dbg package gets
> > updated at each ABI change.
> 
> That'd help. Please let us know the metapackage name, on this bug
> report, and we'll update it accordingly.

There will be a different metapackage name for each flavour.  You could
suggest:

linux-image-amd64-dbg [amd64] | linux-image-686-pae-dbg [i386] |
linux-image-s390x-dbg [s390 s390x] | linux-latest-image-dbg

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
Humans are not rational beings; they are rationalising beings.

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