better late than never thanks for the detailed info.
-------------------------------------------- On Sun, 27/8/17, Pino Toscano <p...@debian.org> wrote: Subject: Re: kdelibs5-dbg: recommends kdelibs-bin of the same version, but does not depend on it To: "Jayen Ashar" <j...@yahoo.com>, 609749-d...@bugs.debian.org Received: Sunday, 27 August, 2017, 2:09 AM Source: kde4libs Source-Version: 4:4.14.16-1 Hi, sorry for the late reply. In data mercoledì 12 gennaio 2011 17:56:51 CEST, Jayen Ashar ha scritto: > I think kdelibs5-dbg should depend on kdelibs-bin of the same version > instead of recommend it. The reason being that you could get mismatched > debug symbols if you have a system that pulls KDE from different apt > repositories that have different KDE versions. > > e.g. I went to install kdelibs5-dbg to generate a useful backtrace for a > bug report, but the default was to install kdelibs5-dbg 4:4.4.5-2 even > though i have kdelibs-bin 4:4.5.3-0r1 installed. Most probably, kdelibs5-dbg should had a strict dependency on libkdecore5, since it is basically used by almost all the other packages, as the other packages have strict dependencies among them already. OTOH, kde4libs version 4:4.14.16-1 switched to the automatic dbgsym packages -- see: https://wiki.debian.org/HowToGetABacktrace https://wiki.debian.org/AutomaticDebugPackages The result of the above is that each binary package has its own -dbgsym package, with a strict version dependency. I believe this should solve the issue, so I'm closing this bug as fixed. Thank you for your report, -- Pino Toscano
