On Fri, Oct 16, 2026 at 07:57:44AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > >7zip's debug packages would have names that violate the usual package
> > >naming
> > >scheme, that the stem ends at the first - followed by a digit.
> > >
> > >Simply naming the debug package "debug_7zip" instead of "debug-7zip"
> > >removes
> > >the problem without adding over issues.
> >
> > While we're at it, shouldn't we try to find a prefix that has little to no
> > chance to clash? I fear that debug_ might be too generic?
> > Maybe that's just me :-)
>
> Another issue with the current naming is that it's very susceptible
> to 'shearing' during a mirror sync.
>
> Could this be done as a suffix rather than a prefix or is that just
> going to be too messy? ("debug" is definitely too generic in this
> position, but e.g. "squid-7.7p0v0-krb5-dbg").
>
>
Presenting it as a flavor seems like an horrible complication.
It's probably quite possible to insert it at the end of the stem, e.g.,
_DBG_PKGFILE=${_PKGFILE:C/(-[0-9])/-debug\1/}
If the make part is okay, the rest is reasonably trivial to deal with.
