[Fedora-packaging] Debuginfo packages

[Ralf Corsepius]

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