Hi, 2016-04-22 13:37 GMT+02:00 Tim Dengel <[email protected]>:
> am currently preparing version 0.2.0-1 of my package gnome-twitch, and > I have a question about automatically generated dbgsym packages: Do I > need to list the -dbgsym package in debian/control? > you should not. > According to the wiki at https://wiki.debian.org/DebugPackage I need "no > additional changes to your source package", but I saw that the package > openhpi lists the dbgsym packages in the control file, and the dbgsym > packages from that source package are also the only ones I see when I do > "aptitude search dbgsym". openhpi is wrong. dbgsym packages should be in solo archive ( http://debug.mirrors.debian.org/debian-debug/) I also get a warning when I'm building my package: "dpkg-genchanges: > warning: package gnome-twitch-dbgsym listed in files list but not in > control info" > > So can I ignore this warning and will the dbgsym package be available in > the archive when my package is uploaded or do I need to add the dbgsym > package to debian/control? > i think you should not add it to d/control and ignore this warning. -- Best regards Bc. Ondrej Novy
