[Fedora-packaging] Debuginfo packages

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Am Samstag, den 20.05.2006, 12:07 +0300 schrieb Ville Skyttä:
> FYI, I wrote a packager info blurb about debuginfo packages, see
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Debuginfo

thx

>[...]
> 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. 

Yeah, probably. 

/me hopes that the list doesn't get longer and longer over time. 

>  The next upstream version
> of rpmlint (> 0.76) will also have a check for empty debuginfo packages.

We should probably work towards a solution where we run rpmlint or other
checks (rpath) automatically in the buildsystem (or on a separate
machine). 

CU
thl
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Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info>