On Sun, 19 Nov 2017 18:14:54 +0100 Christoph Biedl <debian.a...@manchmal.in-ulm.de> wrote: > Package: lintian > Version: 2.5.59 > Severity: wishlist > > Dear Maintainer, > > as you know the concept of manually maintained -dbg packages has been > superseeded by automatically created -dbgsym ones during the stretch > development cycle. > > So I was about to propose a warning for -dbg packages just to find it's > already implemented as debian-control-has-obsolete-dbg-package - but > marked experimental. > > In my opinion the severity should be raised, and actually above warning > level. > > Related, unless there's still a situation where -dbg packages serve a > purpose - I'm not aware of such and cannot think of any either - I > wouldn't mind if ftp-master starts to autoreject such packages, perhaps > with NMUs as an exception. > > Christoph
I suspect it is too early to make -dbg an auto-reject. To my knowledge, the -dbg packages are in certain cases still useful. I believe that e.g. valgrind requires the -dbg package from libc during builds. As it cannot Build-Depend on a -dbgsym package, the libc-dbg package probably still have to live for now. Thanks, ~Niels