Re: `makepkg` generates two packages

[Robin Candau <antiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/7/24 13:21, Ryan Petris wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 7, 2024, at 4:38 AM, Robin Candau wrote:
> > On 3/7/24 12:34, lacsaP Patatetom wrote:
> > > hi,
> > Hi,
> > >
> > > when I run `makepkg`, it generates a second package with the `-debug`
> > > "extension" (eg. `mypackage-w.x.y-z-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst` and
> > > `mypackage-debug-w.x.y-z-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst`).
> > >
> > > I couldn't find anything about this on the wiki : is this a new feature
> > > and/or is there a parameter to pass to `makepkg` to avoid building it ?
> > >
> > Debug packages have been introduced in Arch in early 2022.
> > See https://archlinux.org/news/debug-packages-and-debuginfod/ 
> > <https://archlinux.org/news/debug-packages-and-debuginfod/>
> > > regards, lacsaP.
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Robin Candau / Antiz
> >
> >
> >
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> Arch itself may have been generating debug packages since 2022, however 
> it's only recently that makepkg started spitting out debug packages by 
> default. The change was made all the way back in June of last year 
> <https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/pacman/-/commit/90bf367e61b4f77f8351d0412be3d0c4ddadb85a>, but was only included in a pacman release at the beginning of February <https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/pacman/-/tags/6.0.2-9>, as part of a pkgrel bump.
> > This came as a surprise to me as well, when I had -debug packages start
> showing up in my personal repository when they had not before, without 
> any changes made on my end.
>
> Personally I would have expected some sort of announcement for this 
> change, though there was none.
The news in 2022 said that enabling debug packages for all packages was 
an ongoing effort, suggesting that such a change would happen sooner or 
later. But fair enough, I get your point.

If anything, as Christian/gromit already said in a previous mail on that 
thread, you can disable the debug option in PKGBUILDs/makepkg.conf to 
avoid -debug packages from being created.

--
Regards,
Robin Candau / Antiz

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