On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 13:26:17 (EDT), Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: > Does Debian have any sort of policy about when there should and should > not be a -dbg package? > > As an upstream author, I personally prefer having -dbg packages for all > packages.
I think this question deserves a more general audience. AFAIUI, adding -dbg packages is at the maintainers descretion and added on a case by case basis. The issue is that espc. large packages produce increadibly huge dbg package, so it has to be decided on a case by case basis. Libraries and applications for which stacktraces are useful are good candidates to add -dbg packages. Maybe one day debian will gain a similar retrace infrastructure like ubuntu has with apport: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Apport -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
