Re: dbg packages

[Koen Kooi <koen@dominion.kabel.utwente.nl>]

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Dr. Michael Lauer schreef:
> koen commit wrote:
>> wireshark: fix -dbg
> [...]
>> +
>> +FILES_${PN}-dbg += "${libdir}/wireshark/plugins/${PV}/.debug"
>> +
>> +
> 
> We keep adding this stuff more and more -- since more and more
> packages go from a monolithic state to an extensible -- and
> I don't like having to specify this all over. Can't we get the dbg
> package to pick up all .debug directories automatically?

In this case I'd say "make wireshark even more granular by subpackaging its 2 shlibs and
plugins", which would not want every .debug directory in ${PN}-dbg.

In the general case I'm not sure if we want something automagically added to ${PN}-dbg or
not, since it is likely to be wrong in a lot of cases. So I'm not sure if something
automagically would cause more or less work for packages I want to add/maintain/fix.

What I would like to see implemented is some heuristic that puts .debug/<foo> in the -dbg
(sub)package that is named after the (sub)package that has <foo> (e.g. create
wireshark-plugin-<foo>-dbg automagically after finding <foo> in wireshark-plugin-<foo>).

Same goes for lib<foo>-dev automagically getting lib<foo>.{so,a,la,pc}, headers will have
to get sorted by hand.

Packaging is tedious, but let's not automate doing the wrong thing ;)

regards,

Koen
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