Package: developers-reference Version: 3.4.0 Severity: normal Tags: patch In section 6.7.9 Best practices for debug packages [bpp-dbg]:
> Note that *the Debian package* should depend on the package that it
> provides debugging symbols for, and this dependency should be versioned.
> For example:
>
> Depends: libfoo-dbg (= ${binary:Version})
"the Debian package" here should mean "the debug package", and the given
example rather gives an impression to suggest libfoo to depend on its
debug package, which is weird.
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Index: developers-reference-3.4.0/best-pkging-practices.dbk
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--- developers-reference-3.4.0.orig/best-pkging-practices.dbk 2008-06-23 20:33:41.000000000 +0700
+++ developers-reference-3.4.0/best-pkging-practices.dbk 2008-06-23 20:37:14.000000000 +0700
@@ -1745,11 +1745,11 @@
add an entry to <filename>debian/control</filename> for the debug package.
</para>
<para>
-Note that the Debian package should depend on the package that it provides
+Note that the debug package should depend on the package that it provides
debugging symbols for, and this dependency should be versioned. For example:
</para>
<screen>
-Depends: libfoo-dbg (= ${binary:Version})
+Depends: libfoo (= ${binary:Version})
</screen>
</section>
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