Re: [PATCH 0/1] udev: ship source files to related dbg package

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, 2013-11-08 at 16:10 +0800, wenzong fan wrote:
> On 11/07/2013 07:12 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> > On 7 November 2013 11:03,  <wenzong.fan@windriver.com> wrote:
> >> From: Wenzong Fan <wenzong.fan@windriver.com>
> >>
> >> Just ship these sources to their own dbg packages instead of udev-dbg:
> >>
> >>      libudev* -> libudev-dbg
> >>      gudev*   -> libgudev-dbg
> >>      others   -> udev-dbg
> >
> > Why do this?  Multiple -dbg packages could make sense in a recipe
> > which builds a multi-gigabyte -dbg package (such as webkit) but what's
> > the rationale for doing this in udev?
> 
> Actually I don't know clear about why it needs three -dbg packages, 
> looks they have been there since very early commits of udev. I suspect 
> that udev/libudev/libgudev are independent each other, so they are 
> shipped into different packages (base/-dev/-dbg). This patch only ships 
> their source code to -dbg packages accordingly.

We don't support multiple -dbg packages and this looks like an error.

Cheers,

Richard