[Fedora-packaging] Disabling debuginfo packages

Christopher Stone chris.stone at gmail.com
Thu Oct 19 22:16:41 UTC 2006


On 10/19/06, Michael Schwendt <bugs.michael at gmx.net> wrote:
> I'd like to request the following packaging policy:
>
> [...]
>
> If a packager uses something with the same effect than
>
>   %define debug_package %{nil}
>
> which disables the automatically built "debuginfo" package, the spec file
> MUST contain a comment that explains why this is done.

This goes without saying.  Infact why be so specific?  The rule should
be that if anything is done that is out of the ordinary a comment must
be added that explains why.




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