Re: [PATCH] ffmpeg: Add -dbg packages for all libraries

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 2016-02-12 09:17, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-02-12 at 04:58 +0100, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> Improve the packaging of the libraries built by this recipe.  These
>> are created using special code in the recipe and the debug (-dbg)
>> packages were not being created.  Adding these packages allow the
>> libraries in question to be debugged using GDB.
>
> This isn't really policy, the policy is one -dbg package per recipe and
> that is how the dependency chains and dbg-pkgs in IMAGE_FEATURES work
> and so on.
>
> I'm not arguing this is perfect, its not and I would like to see it
> change. It is how it all works today though. Is there a pressing reason
> we need to do something different here?

Without this change, none of the [renamed] libraries generated by
the ffmpeg recipe have debug symbols available.  As is, the recipe
is generating separate -dev packages for each library - how is that
different [policy-wise]?

Should the -dev and -dbg info for the libraries be bundled into
ffmpeg-dbg and ffmpeg-dev?  Or perhaps the machinations generating
the -dev packages in that recipe are just wrong?

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