[Fedora-packaging] Importance of debuginfo packages

[Rex Dieter]

Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> So, how important is it to have a proper
> debuginfo package?  How much hacking is permissible or necessary in
> order to achieve that goal? 

I think these are questions best answered by the maintainer/reviewer 
(and possibly upstream).  The easy answers are:
tiny hacks -> do it
many hacks/patches -> probably not worth it
It's defining the line between the two that's tricky.

> Is an incomplete debuginfo package (that
> contains, say, the striped debug information but is missing some or
> all of the source code) still useful, or would it be better to have
> none at all?

Something is certainly better than nothing.

-- Rex