On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 16:50:51 +0100, Sandro Mani wrote:
> A nice solution to ensure consistency could be to have each
> debuginfo package require the exact version of the base package
> installed. Since the debuginfo package however cannot know which
> base (sub)package it should depend on, I wonder whether it could
> work if the package and all subpackages should provide something
> like: Provides: debuginfo-requirement(%{name}) =
> %{version}-%{release}?
There were multiple Bugs suggesting the same, they are linked together for
example from this one from 2005. But it all got WONTFIXed:
Debug info RPMs do not "require" exact maching binary rpm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=151598
When I have all supported Fedoras in mock most of the days at least one of
them has debuginfos out of sync (=making nightly testing results invalid).
Jan
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