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Package: perl-debug
Severity: minor
Every other debugging package in Debian uses the convention of appending
-dbg to the package name. Only perl-debug uses the suffix "-debug":
~$ aptitude search '?name(-dbg$)' | wc -l
1649
~$ aptitude search '?name(-debug$)'
p perl-debug - debug-enabled Perl interpreter
Please consider renaming perl-debug to perl-dbg.
Thanks,
Josh Triplett
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On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 06:24:07PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 08:44:15AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:43:17PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > > On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 04:08:15PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> >
> > > > Please consider renaming perl-debug to perl-dbg.
> >
> > > "A debug package is a package with a name ending in -dbg, that contains
> > > additional information that gdb can use".
> >
> > I believe the history here is that perl-debug was originally just
> > /usr/bin/debugperl and the gdb detached symbols came later. See #433631.
> > Not sure when we dropped libperld.a.
> >
> > IMO the perl-dbg name emphasizes the gdb symbols rather than the separate
> > binary. But I don't really care much.
> >
> > I wonder if we should have a libperl5.14-dbg package too, but if the
> > actual policy doesn't mandate much, I suppose it'd be overkill.
> >
> > > Sounds entirely reasonable and fairly un-disruptive. I guess we'll
> > > want a transitional dummy package for a release cycle, but there are
> > > no reverse deps.
> >
> > Ack on the transitional package.
> >
> > > Also, the package description should probably be revised, since it
> > > doesn't make explicit mention of debugging symbols, only enabling
> > > debugging features within perl.
> > >
> > > Any objections to doing this now, for transition into unstable with
> > > whichever of 5.16/5.18 we end up with?
> >
> > No objections, it just never seemed worth the effort and ddebs were
> > always "coming soon."
>
> I started this, but it wasn't quite as straightforward as hoped owing
> to the hand-crafted rules file. I've pushed my work to
> dom/rename-perl-debug and will probably pick it up at some point
> (it mostly works, but the transition package isn't built correctly).
>
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=perl/perl.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/dom/rename-perl-debug
This is all superced by #810327 (perl: move to dbgsym packages) so
I'm closing this now.
Dominic.
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