I am a bit late to this discussion I know, but I have a question.
Shouldn't there be dbg packages for the stable releases as well? If there
are bugs in the stable releases, isn't it important to be able to properly
report them?
- Mitch Golden
On Sun, 27 May 2012, Philip Muskovac wrote:
On Sunday 27 May 2012 00:08:23 Philip Muskovac wrote:
While we packaged the git splitup in KDE, we decided that providing -dbg
packages for a few packages wouldn't be worth it. Now, while that (probably)
makes sense for stable releases, I don't believe it makes any sense for
BETA packages. And I have at least [1] open bug report about missing
debugging symbols in the PPA's. So if we want to provide 4.9 packages in
the beta ppa for precise, we need a solution.
This is what I believe we could do:
A) Force generation of -dbgsym packages by patching pkg-create-dbgsym
and pkgbinarymangler. I haven't quite figured that out yet though.
B) Just add the missing -dbg packages.
add
C) make pkg-kde-tool somehow add a -dbg package when it sees that none exists
yet. I have no idea how long that would take to implement.
Philip
My problem with A is that it requires additional PPA space, even if we
improve the compression because many packages would have their debugging
symbols twice.
B is more work, and would cause a larger diff for all affected packages.
Does someone else have another idea how this could be done? Otherwise we
could have a vote what to use in the end. (BEFORE we backport 4.8.80 to
precise if possible)
Philip
[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/+bug/935905
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