On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 12:55:10PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote: > Package: perl > Version: 5.22.1-3 > Severity: wishlist > > Detached debugging symbols are moving to a separate archive suite. > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/12/msg00262.html > > We should migrate the symbols in perl-debug as well.
So we can't use "automatic -dbgsym packages" as provided by debhelper, as we have a long standing tradition of trying to avoid needing perl (and hence debhelper) to build perl. Seems like the easiest way to implement this manually is to put -dbgsym packages in debian/control just like regular ones. My reading of the DAK code (at https://ftp-master.debian.org/git/dak.git/) indicates we just need to name them perl-dbgsym etc., and declare Section: debug Auto-Built-Package: debug-symbols. to get them to go in the debug suite (and bypass NEW processing et al.) Cc'ing Ansgar, who implemented the DAK side, and Niels, who I understand designed this whole thing. Is the above correct, or are there other restrictions? Would we be misusing a private interface between debhelper and DAK, or are other implementations welcome? The "Auto-Built-Package" part makes me a bit uncomfortable, it would be sort of a lie. Is that a problem? -- Niko Tyni [email protected]
