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

[Roman Lebedev]

On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 3:32 PM, Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Feb 2017 09:50:00 +0000 Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> I agree with Niels here on the wontfix part.

> I think this should be
> moved into a separate tool/helper which scans a core/backtrace and
> offers to install all necessary dbgsym packages
That would work for me too :)

Roman.
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