Are conflicts in debuginfo packages OK?

[Björn Persson]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 00:01 +0100, Björn Persson wrote:
> > I don't see that I as a packager can do anything to prevent these
> > conflicts. Shall I conclude that I don't need to care about conflicts
> > between architecture versions of debuginfo packages? Or shall I try to
> > avoid conflicts in debuginfo packages for libraries, but not for
> > programs? I think I can avoid debuginfo conflicts in packages that
> > provide only libraries, but maybe I shouldn't bother?
> 
> debuginfo packages cannot be multilib, that is why we don't offer them
> multilib.

I'm guessing that "we don't offer them multilib" means that 32-bit debuginfo 
packages aren't meant to be installed on 64-bit systems, so I'll take this to 
mean that I shouldn't bother doing anything to avoid conflicts.

Björn Persson
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