On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 09:18:43PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
>
> > lintian should give an error when both foo-dbg and foo-dbgsym are
> > built
>
> Could you provide another draft description? Thank you in advance.
Both -dbg and -dbgsym are built for this package.
Only one should be built for the debug symbols.
Usually the -dbg should be dropped in favour of the -dbgsym.
In some cases (e.g. for Python modules) the -dbg contains more than just
the debug symbols. In these cases the -dbgsym should not be built.
> Regards,
cu
Adrian
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