On 20.03.2012 15:02, Allan McRae wrote:

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

Assuming the only thing the option changes is that debug symbols are split into a separate package, I'd rather have splitdebug, because debug sounds like it would magically enable a debug build. (pass --debug to configure, add -g to CFLAGS or the like)

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...)

The aur packages are probably not needed any more once we have this. Go with foo-debug

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

Can't hurt.

- replaces - conflicts

I guess those are not needed if we already depend on a specific version of the main package.

Do not include: - groups - provides - backup - install - changelog

Allan

-- Florian Pritz