Package: lintian Version: 2.4.1 Severity: normal Currently lintian requires that -dbg packages depend on all packages they contain debug symbols for. In my opinion this should be change to allow -dbg packages to list the packages in Recommends or Depends.
The reason for this is to avoid installing a lot of unnecessary packages if you just want to debug something in one of the packages. zbar is a good example for that: Imagine you want to debug an issue in libzbar0 on a server without X and you install zbar-dbg, which depends on all binary packages it contains debug symbols for. You'll have to install - QT - GTK - xorg - Python debug stuff and a lot more packages just to debug the issue in libzbar0. Recommending the packages would have avoided that. In the case of zbar it would make sense to put libzbar0 into Depends as all packages need the library, though. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
