On Wed, 25 May 2022 at 17:26, u34--- via arch-general < arch-general@lists.archlinux.org> wrote:

Am I right the new -debug packages do not depend, pacman wise, on their binary, non -debug packages? By that I mean pacman --upgrade somepkg-debug will sucsseed even when somepkg is not installed. Such dependency looks to me obvoius. Why was it decided not to have it?

Don't want to go "this distro does it too" but just like CentOS, if you ask for a debuginfo package, it doesn't imply that you want the binary upon which it is based. e.g. in Centos with debug repo enabled you can install bluez-debuginfo without having to install bluez. You can want to debug a trace without having to install the application and all its libraries etc