Re: Package relationships for python debug packages

2010-10-19 Thread Christian Kastner
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:23:35 +1100, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Howdy all, What relationship should be declared between a binary ‘python-foo-dbg’ package and the ‘python-dbg’ package? I can't remember the rationale, but the consensus was not what I expected. Should the

Re: Package relationships for python debug packages

2010-10-19 Thread Ben Finney
Christian Kastner deb...@kvr.at writes: In http://wiki.debian.org/Python/DbgBuilds, we argued for ‘Recommends: python-dbg’ if the package can be used without the debug interpreter (eg: it contains the stripped debugging symbols for use with gdb); otherwise, ‘Depends: python-dbg’. That covers