Is "Requires: X-debuginfo" allowed?

[Jan Kaluža]

Hi,

I'm author and maintainer of newly packaged package called httpdtap. It 
uses SystemTap scripts to get some debug data from running httpd 
webserver. To work correctly, it needs various debuginfo packages 
(httpd-debuginfo, apr-debuginfo, ...) installed on the system.

I thought dependency on -debuginfo is not a problem, but after I built 
this package for rawhide, I have started receiving emails about broken 
dependencies.

My question is: Are -debuginfo dependencies allowed and if not, what to 
do in my case when they are needed for the package to work (the package 
is useless without httpd debuginfo packages installed)?

Regards,
Jan Kaluza

[Rex Dieter]

On 09/30/2013 07:10 AM, Jan Kaluža wrote:
> My question is: Are -debuginfo dependencies allowed

Probably not (currently at least).  debuginfo repositories are not 
enabled on end-user systems by default.

-- Rex

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Monday, 30 September 2013 at 14:30, Rex Dieter wrote:
> On 09/30/2013 07:10 AM, Jan Kaluža wrote:
> > My question is: Are -debuginfo dependencies allowed
>
> Probably not (currently at least).  debuginfo repositories are not
> enabled on end-user systems by default.

I'd remove the dependencies on -debuginfo and add a note in
README.Fedora and ship it as %doc (if you don't have one already).

Regards,
Dominik

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 07:30:28 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> On 09/30/2013 07:10 AM, Jan Kaluža wrote:
> > My question is: Are -debuginfo dependencies allowed
>
> Probably not (currently at least).  debuginfo repositories are not 
> enabled on end-user systems by default.

As a [questionable] work-around, one could include the debuginfo files
(/usr/lib/debug/* and /usr/src/debug/*) in a normal subpackage, however,
e.g. a -debug package.

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 18:42:00 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 07:30:28 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > On 09/30/2013 07:10 AM, Jan Kaluža wrote:
> > > My question is: Are -debuginfo dependencies allowed
> >
> > Probably not (currently at least).  debuginfo repositories are not 
> > enabled on end-user systems by default.
>
> As a [questionable] work-around, one could include the debuginfo files
> (/usr/lib/debug/* and /usr/src/debug/*) in a normal subpackage, however,
> e.g. a -debug package.

Won't help with missing external -debuginfo packages, however,
And there are not inter-dependencies in -debuginfo packages either anyway.