[debhelper-devel] Bug#884152: lintian: report about mismatches between the Build-IDs field and the content of /usr/lib/debug/

[Paul Wise]

Control: clone -1 -2
Control: severity -1 normal
Control: reopen -2
Control: reassign -2 lintian
Control: retitle -2 lintian: report about mismatches between the Build-IDs field and the content of /usr/lib/debug/

On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 17:44:43 +0800 Paul Wise wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 06:46:00 +0000 Niels Thykier wrote:
> 
> > I am moving this to debhelper.  A maintainer does not and cannot
> > influence this. The bug has to be fixed in debhelper and a lintian tag
> > would simply serve to annoy people about a bug they cannot fix.
> 
> I still think this needs to be checked in lintian for several reasons:
> 
> To quantify the problem. I found a few manually when running
> find-dbgsym-packages but I'm definitely not going to check everything.
> 
> To discover which packages need rebuilding after the debhelper bug is
> fixed and to encourage maintainers to do uploads to fix the issue,
> since the release team doesn't seem to like to do binNMUs for
> debhelper bugs related to debug symbols (see #882051).
> 
> To catch any packages not doing standard things; creating Build-Ids
> outside of debhelper and doing it wrong or doing things in overrides
> that break the list of Buildd-Ids etc.
> 
> To catch any future debhelper bugs that might cause this issue.

For these reasons, and now that the debhelper bug is fixed, I am
requesting that lintian check for this issue. Please mention that the
solution usually is to rebuild with the fixed debhelper. Please also
encourage dropping the -dbg in favour of automatic -dbgsym packages.

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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