Packaging issue: what to do about debuginfo after arch->noarch change?

[Tom Lane]

Tom Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> writes:
> On 05/14/2012 10:34 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I recently converted mysql-connector-java from arch to noarch (it used
>> to use GCJ to build, now it doesn't).  Martin Cermak pointed out to me
>> that if you had the debuginfo subpackage installed, and you upgrade,
>> the old debuginfo will still be there even though it's now irrelevant.
>> Is this a bug, and if so what should I do about it?

> Hmm. I'm inclined to say that we ought to resolve this either in
> anaconda or preupgrade by running some sort of "cleanup" script that
> looks for orphan debuginfo and flushes them down the drain, as opposed
> to carrying Obsoletes.

Note that the case Martin was concerned about was a plain old "yum
update" of the package, not an OS-wide upgrade.  I'm unsure to what
extent yum knows about debuginfo, but that's where smarts would need
to be added to address his concern.

			regards, tom lane