[debhelper-devel] Bug#843466: dh_strip: make -dbg packages recursively pull -dbgsym for the package dependencies

[Niels Thykier]

Control: tags -1 wontfix

On Sun, 06 Nov 2016 22:57:03 +0300 Roman Lebedev <lebedev.ri at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Package: debhelper
> Version: 10.2.2
> Severity: wishlist
> File: /usr/bin/dh_strip
> 
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA512
> 
> When installing debug symbols for some package,
> i always install all the debug sybols for all the
> libs that package uses.
> 
> E.g. if the packages is foo, and it uses glib,
> i install foo-dbgsym and libglib2.0-0-dbg:amd64
> 
> It would be awesome if debug symbol packages could
> retain dependency information from the main package, 
> and use it to recursively pull-in the dbgsym packages
> for the deps.
> 
> Roman.
> 
> [...]

Thanks for the suggestion.

Unfortunately, this is not easily implementable (in its current form).
The -dbg packages will be uploaded to the main archive and -dbgsym
packages go to the debug archive.  The issue being that packages in the
main archive is not able to depend on things in the debug archive.

Thanks,
~Niels