Rawhide debuginfo packages with no sources

Mat Booth fedora at matbooth.co.uk
Fri Apr 10 06:33:20 UTC 2009


On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Quite a few packages that produce *-debuginfo without sources have crept again
> in rawhide.  See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Debuginfo for
> possible reasons, the most usual of which in my (past, haven't checked this
> batch that closely) experience is failure to honor $RPM_OPT_FLAGS during build
> which can also mean that the default security related compiler flags aren't
> being applied either.
>
> List of such packages identified by my debuginfo-check.py is attached
> (ownership info generated with Thorsten's fedoradev-pkgowners).  I intend to
> submit debuginfo-check.py to yum-utils (probably as debugrepo-check) and have
> added a similar check in upstream svn rpmlint, hopefully with these additions
> people will start noticing the issues easier.
>
> Maintainer   Package                     Co-maintainers
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> mbooth       brazil                      (none)


This is a Java package that is AOT compiled for GCJ so the RPM flags
are beyond my control. Compilation is done by the aot-compile-rpm
script from the java-1.5.0-gcj-devel package. What do I need to do (if
anything)?



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Mat Booth
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