On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 12:07 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote: > FYI, I wrote a packager info blurb about debuginfo packages, see > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Debuginfo > > Potential problem cases, see roughly < 10kB files at: > http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/development/i386/debug/?C=S;O=A > http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/extras/development/i386/debug/?C=S;O=A > (download.fedora.redhat.com's dir indexes aren't sortable) You might want to add https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=192422 Toshio is dead right, rpmbuild doesn't generate debuginfos if %build is missing. So far all of my local RPMs which exposed this issue were lacking %build. > I've reported bugs against a bunch of Extras packages lately and some of > have been already fixed. Sanity checking debuginfo packages would also > be an useful addition to the packaging/reviewing guidelines IMO, so I > added it to Packaging/GuidelinesTodo in Wiki. The next upstream version > of rpmlint (> 0.76) will also have a check for empty debuginfo packages. You could consider to add a check for missing %build Ralf -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging