debuginfo packages at different revision to main packages

[Roderick Johnstone]

On 20/07/10 16:10, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Roderick Johnstone wrote:
>> Presumably my mirror was only partially up to date, but should there not
>> be dependencies to prevent this sort of thing happening?
>
> Not at this time, the technical reason being that debuginfo packages are per
> SRPM, not per subpackage, and dragging in all the subpackages would often
> not be a nice thing to do.
>
>          Kevin Kofler

Thanks for the info Kevin.

Roderick