[PATCH 1/1] UBUNTU: rename the debug packages to match archive standard

Loïc Minier loic.minier at ubuntu.com
Thu Feb 25 19:29:56 UTC 2010


On Thu, Feb 25, 2010, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> > -dbgsym is the autogenerated stuff that pitti created for all packages. 
> > -dbg is usually the results of running dh_strip --dbg-package=package in
> > debian/rules, so it's not automatically made for anything, only packages
> > that want an explicit -dbg package in the archive.
> 
> Ok, the name matters little as we're changing it anyway.

 I think the kernel packages are producing packages for ddebs.ubuntu.com
 which are usually named -dbgsym.ddeb.  The Debian-style -dbg.deb
 packages actually go to the archive.  So here I think you want
 $name-dbgsym.ddeb, with $name.deb matching a package in the real
 archive.

-- 
Loïc Minier




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