Hi Niels, Thanks for the prompt and detailed answer! It addressed all my questions.
On 20 December 2015 at 21:11, Niels Thykier wrote: | Dirk Eddelbuettel: | > I was just updating one of my several dozen r-cran-* packages. These all use | > the same (source) r-cran.mk script shipped with the main R packages. | > | > And now all of sudden it wants to build a -dbgsym package. | > | > That may not be such a good idea for the several hundred r-cran-* packages. | > I have been looking around the Deverloper Reference and Wiki (plus Google | > searches) but not found a way to suppress this. What am I missing? [...] | Please have a look at [1]. Though if your reason for disabling them are: | | * Upload speed / personal bandwidth costs. | - Then please consider using "source-only" (or arch:all+source) | uploads, which is unaffected and keeps the dbgsym. | | * That they take up a lot of mirror space etc. | - Then please keep in mind that they are off-loaded to a separate | mirror network and therefore will not burden users / developers | except those who explicitly enable them. | | * If you have other concerns with them, please let me know. :) | | At the same time, the dbgsym packages can be used to assist debugging | your packages or retracing coredumps. They will also be available from | snapshot.debian.org, so you can retrace coredumps from previous uploads | as long as they had a dbgsym package. Thanks a bunch. The link below did fix it. I had just setup a test environment in Docker and the env.var will do. I think will patch the 'debian/rules snippet' we ship with r-base-core to instruct dh_strip to not create these for now. _Right now_ we end up with Lintian errrors hence my first gut instinct to suppress this. The -dbg packages are a good idea; I provide them as eg r-base-core-dbg and for the GSL etc. These may make sense for R packages too, but the r-cran.mk snippet needs some work to postprocess what dh_gencontrol et al create. Volunteers? Dirk | ~Niels | | [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/12/msg00262.html | | | | x[DELETED ATTACHMENT signature.asc, application/pgp-signature] -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
