On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 02:50:06PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
My initial feeling is there is no need for this. There are 0 packages with names ending in "-debug" in Arch Linux and maybe 5 in the AUR. It is also quite quick to extract the list of package file names and match them to debugs variants.
Indeed, as we discussed on IRC there are infact not only no packages ending with -debug, but that the pattern *-debug-* doesn't appear anywhere. It is still not guaranteed to match -debug- packages but it's pretty damn likely.
This leads me to question what problem this is solving. Unless a strong case can be made for its inclusion, I am inclined to not make this change.
Based on the above it might be better to not include this patch. I do still think there is perhaps some merit in using the pkgtype concept, I'm not exactly sure what that merit is yet... YAGNI