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

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Mon Sep 30 16:43:32 UTC 2013


On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 18:42:00 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:

> 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.

Won't help with missing external -debuginfo packages, however,
And there are not inter-dependencies in -debuginfo packages either anyway.


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