[arch-dev-public] [arch-general] [pacman-dev] debug package repositories

[Tom Gundersen]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Lukas Jirkovsky <l.jirkovsky at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 15 April 2013 10:52, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> In fact, I will provide the needed patches for a separate [debug] and
>> [community-debug] repo if that is what is decided to happen.
>
> You have my full support when it comes to having debug packages in a
> separate repository.
>
> On 15 April 2013 15:00, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
>> Couldn't pacman be fixed to only show debug packages in search results when
>> you ask for it with a switch? Maybe something similar could be done for
>> language packages?
>
> A simple alias/wrapper using grep on the pacman output would work too ;-)

Yeah, so why make a separate repo? What's the problem with keeping
debug packages in the normal repos?

-t