[arch-general] In pacman view, -debug package doesn't depends on its non -debug package

[Andy Pieters]

On Wed, 25 May 2022 at 17:26, u34--- via arch-general <
arch-general at 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