Julien Cristau wrote: > > I think dh should recognize the fact that there is only one -dbg package > > in control and automatically call dh_strip with --dbg-package=foo-dbg. > > (When there are multiple -dbg packages in control this is of course > > impossible.) > > > Seconded. It would also be nice to have some smarts in dh to handle > multiple -dbg packages.
It doesn't make any sense to put this intelligence in dh. If anything should recognise and automatically use one (or more) -dbg package(s), it should be dh_strip. But there are some edge cases to making this work: * If there's just one -dbg package, but multiple other packages, should the debug symbols for all of them be put in it, or just those for the matching package name? * If there are multiple -dbg packages, the corresponding non-dbg packages would need to be automatically identified somehow. Just stripping the -dbg isn't good enough, because it's very common for libfooN to have a corresponding (un-so-versioned) libfoo-dbg. Note that the thing someone is working on to automatically generate $PACKAGE-dbg for every package and not have them in the main archive neatly sidesteps all this complexity of special cases. -- see shy jo
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