This patch is to macro madness configuration. RPM is expected to be "legacy compatible" even if distros don't give a hoot about what packaging conventions/naming might have been in place when a distro was released.
You have also pointed out that gdb, not rpm, is responsible for establishing conventions. RPM is already sufficiently reconfigurable no matter what is distributed in @rpm5.org releases. See other comments re creating -debug* whatchamacallits in C internal to RPM+ELFUTILS and ripping out some hugely fragile/complex scripting. 73 de Jeff On Aug 26, 2013, at 3:01 PM, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: > As -debuginfo is the most commonly used suffix for debug packages, there's > also code with special behaviour for naming convention (see lib/dependens.c > where '-debuginfo' rather than '-debug' is used, not to forget other software > such as ie. gdb etc. also that expects this), this patch changes the default > to -debuginfo. > > -- > Regards, > Per Øyvind > <rpm-5.4.7-change-to-debuginfo-suffix.patch> ______________________________________________________________________ RPM Package Manager http://rpm5.org Developer Communication List rpm-devel@rpm5.org
