[Fedora-packaging] Is "Requires: X-debuginfo" allowed?

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Mon Sep 30 16:42:00 UTC 2013


On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 07:30:28 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:

> On 09/30/2013 07:10 AM, Jan Kaluža wrote:
> > My question is: Are -debuginfo dependencies allowed
> 
> Probably not (currently at least).  debuginfo repositories are not 
> enabled on end-user systems by default.

As a [questionable] work-around, one could include the debuginfo files
(/usr/lib/debug/* and /usr/src/debug/*) in a normal subpackage, however,
e.g. a -debug package.


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