/usr/lib/debug ownership

Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
Sat Feb 16 16:16:35 UTC 2013


On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 13:47:13 +0200
Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at laiskiainen.org> wrote:

> I think Kevin was talking about "normal", ie non-debuginfo packages
> like the example case of nacl-devel owning /usr/lib/debug, which
> indeed is a (trivial) packaging bug. Except perhaps for the
> filesystem package which is fairly special case anyway.

Indeed I was. I was thinking we were talking about packages that
mistakenly are shipping their debuginfo in the real package. 

> OTOH because -debuginfo packages always own all the relevant
> directories there's no need for filesystem to own them, which would
> allow for a nice and clean rule: any non-debuginfo package owning the
> *debug directories can be considered an unnecessary multiple
> directory ownership (and a bug of sorts).

Sounds fine to me. 

kevin
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