On 3/7/24 13:21, Ryan Petris wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 7, 2024, at 4:38 AM, Robin Candau wrote:
>> On 3/7/24 12:34, lacsaP Patatetom wrote:
>> > hi,
>> Hi,
>> >
>> > when I run `makepkg`, it generates a second package with the `-debug`
>> > "extension" (eg. `mypackage-w.x.y-z-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst` and
>> > `mypackage-debug-w.x.y-z-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst`).
>> >
>> > I couldn't find anything about this on the wiki : is this a new feature
>> > and/or is there a parameter to pass to `makepkg` to avoid building it ?
>> >
>> Debug packages have been introduced in Arch in early 2022.
>> See https://archlinux.org/news/debug-packages-and-debuginfod/
>> <https://archlinux.org/news/debug-packages-and-debuginfod/>
>> > regards, lacsaP.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Robin Candau / Antiz
>>
>>
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>
> Arch itself may have been generating debug packages since 2022, however
> it's only recently that makepkg started spitting out debug packages by
> default. The change was made all the way back in June of last year
> <https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/pacman/-/commit/90bf367e61b4f77f8351d0412be3d0c4ddadb85a>, but was only included in a pacman release at the beginning of February <https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/pacman/-/tags/6.0.2-9>, as part of a pkgrel bump.
> > This came as a surprise to me as well, when I had -debug packages start
> showing up in my personal repository when they had not before, without
> any changes made on my end.
>
> Personally I would have expected some sort of announcement for this
> change, though there was none.
The news in 2022 said that enabling debug packages for all packages was
an ongoing effort, suggesting that such a change would happen sooner or
later. But fair enough, I get your point.

If anything, as Christian/gromit already said in a previous mail on that
thread, you can disable the debug option in PKGBUILDs/makepkg.conf to
avoid -debug packages from being created.

--
Regards,
Robin Candau / Antiz