role and devel tags for -dbg packages

[Justin B Rye]

Benjamin Mesing wrote:
>> I maintain a couple of packages that produce -dbg binary packages
>> (stripped debugging symbols only, in case anyone is unfamiliar with
>> them).  I notice that right now there is no role:: or devel:: tag for
>> these sorts of packages, so I have temproarily tagged both as todo.

The "role:: questions" thread was here:

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debtags-devel/2006-December/001529.htm

> Regarding a role:: tag, I believe the most appropriate one is
> currently ::devel-lib. Do we need another tag here?

Surely they're variants of ordinary runtime-dependency (ie
role::shared-lib) library packages?  That's certainly what the long
description of (eg) apache-dbg seems to say: bugreport submitters
who want to add extra debugging data are told to install a -dbg 
library and then rerun the application, not rebuild it.
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JBR
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