Packaging questions

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

I'm [still] trying to set up a package for Amanda.  I'd like
the end result to match how it's done on other systems, e.g.
my desktop Fedora box.  However, this layout is causing some
QA errors which I don't know how to fix, e.g.

ERROR: QA Issue: non debug package contains .debug directory: amanda path 
/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-amltd-linux-gnueabi/amanda/3.3.3-r0/packages-split/amanda/usr/lib/perl/5.14.2/auto/Amanda/MainLoop/.debug/libMainLoop.so
ERROR: QA Issue: non -dev/-dbg/-nativesdk package contains symlink .so: amanda path 
'/work/armv7a-vfp-neon-amltd-linux-gnueabi/amanda/3.3.3-r0/packages-split/amanda/usr/lib/amanda/libamar.so'

I understand the first one but don't know the workaround.  How
do I tell bitbake that the directory /usr/lib/perl/5.14.2/auto/Amanda/MainLoop
contains executable code (and that's OK)?

The second issue I think is one of philosophy.  The symbolic link
is important to the package - how can I set this up to be OK?

Thanks for any pointers

Note: of course there are many of each of these classes of errors,
this is just a representative example.

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