On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 06:10:18PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > this is seen with the recent upload of the librevenge package. The
LibreOffice has that, too (even before librevenge had it). See last paragraph. > maintainer scripts modify the librevenge-0.0-0-dbgsym package to include the No, maintainer scripts not. debian/rules, yes. > infrastructures as well. I couldn't find anything in policy which allows or backports could have that disabled. As could other people who don't build -dbgsym. It's not magic, it's just commenting stuff out in debian/rules. > forbids modification of -dbgsym packages, but think it's worth to document > this in policy whether the outcome is. Indeed. > While the pretty printers are not > that useful without debug information, the size of these files compared to > the library package (821kB) is sufficiently small that it could be including > in the library package itself. No, they are for debugging. Thus they belong into -dbg (or in this case as we're migrating away from -dbg: -dbgsym). Either there or it isn't installed anymore anyway. (Which isn't a big loss, though) But yeah, I agree it should be documented whether it's allowed. When I asked Niels about that for LO (because the -dbg contained them and I didn't want to "regress") he said I was relying on debhelper internals and it could break (which it did one time, where I needed to adapt it to work again) but didn't say "don't do that"... Regards, Rene
