I have been looking at the patches for automatic creation of packages with debug symbols. I think they are good starts, but before I polish them we need to decide on a few things. My preferences are highlighted with a (*) 1) the option in makepkg.conf and PKGBUILD options=() array - debug (*) - debugpkg - splitdbg - splitdebug 2) the naming of the package with debug symbols - foo-dbg - foo-debug (*) - foo-debuginfo - foo-debug-symbols (Note -dbg is Debian style, -debuginfo is RPM style, and -debug potentially conflicts with a few packages in the AUR but none in the Arch repos...) 3) what information the .PKGINFO file has: pkgdesc="Debugging symbols for $pkgname" Must be included: - pkgname - pkgver/pkgrel/epoch/arch as in parent package - depends=(parent=$epoch:$pkgver-$pkgrel) - license Should be included? - url - replaces - conflicts Do not include: - groups - provides - backup - install - changelog Allan