Often when doing package reviews I find a package that needs some hack in order to get rpmbuild to build a complete debuginfo package. Some of this relates to passing the proper compiler flags and making sure the package doesn't strip its own binaries, which I think is necessary, but occasionally rpmbuild needs the source to be moved around in the build tree, or it needs symlinks flattened or somesuch. These are just hacks to work around rpmbuild deficiencies, and I can understand if packagers are reticent to clutter up their packages for something of unknown value. So, how important is it to have a proper debuginfo package? How much hacking is permissible or necessary in order to achieve that goal? Is an incomplete debuginfo package (that contains, say, the striped debug information but is missing some or all of the source code) still useful, or would it be better to have none at all? - J< -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
