Y Giridhar Appaji Nag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 08/01/02 12:41 -0800, Russ Allbery said ...
>> *-dbg packages should depend on the package for which they're providing
>> debugging symbols, generally with an (= ${binary:Version) dependency,
>> to ensure consistency between the debugging symbols and the package.
> A stronger check would be to check if the files installed by a -dbg
> package in the /usr/lib/debug directory are present in one of the
> packages that it depends on. Both the packages would be a created from
> the same source package, so this wouldn't be an "external" check.
Unfortunately, yes, it would be, since lintian doesn't have access to one
.deb while checking another unless it gets lucky and they're checked in
the right order and with a single invocation.
In other words, we could try, but it would be a tag that might show up and
might not depending on how lintian was run. I think that's okay when all
we're trying to do is avoid false positives, but I'm not as sure it's a
good idea for a new check.
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