Are conflicts in debuginfo packages OK?

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 02:25:16PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Frank Ch. Eigler (fche at redhat.com) said: 
> > > I'm guessing that "we don't offer them multilib" means that 32-bit
> > > debuginfo packages aren't meant to be installed on 64-bit systems,
> > > so I'll take this to mean that I shouldn't bother doing anything to
> > > avoid conflicts.
> > 
> > Well, hold on, debuginfo for multilib'd libraries like glibc should be
> > absolutely installable in parallel.
> 
> Not unless someone changes the layout of debuginfo entirely, as they
> use common paths:
> 
> /usr/src/debug/<source tree name>
> /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/...

Currently you can install say on x86_64 either a i686, or x86_64
debuginfo package, but not both.

	Jakub