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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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On Fri, 2016-02-12 at 09:29 +0100, Gary Thomas wrote:
> 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?

There should only be one -dev package too.

As you saying the debug symbols are getting placed into the -dev
packages? They must be getting placed and hence packaged somewhere?

Cheers,

Richard