Control: clone -1 -2 Control: severity -1 normal Control: reopen -2 Control: reassign -2 lintian Control: retitle -2 lintian: report about mismatches between the Build-IDs field and the content of /usr/lib/debug/
On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 17:44:43 +0800 Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 06:46:00 +0000 Niels Thykier wrote: > > > I am moving this to debhelper. A maintainer does not and cannot > > influence this. The bug has to be fixed in debhelper and a lintian tag > > would simply serve to annoy people about a bug they cannot fix. > > I still think this needs to be checked in lintian for several reasons: > > To quantify the problem. I found a few manually when running > find-dbgsym-packages but I'm definitely not going to check everything. > > To discover which packages need rebuilding after the debhelper bug is > fixed and to encourage maintainers to do uploads to fix the issue, > since the release team doesn't seem to like to do binNMUs for > debhelper bugs related to debug symbols (see #882051). > > To catch any packages not doing standard things; creating Build-Ids > outside of debhelper and doing it wrong or doing things in overrides > that break the list of Buildd-Ids etc. > > To catch any future debhelper bugs that might cause this issue. For these reasons, and now that the debhelper bug is fixed, I am requesting that lintian check for this issue. Please mention that the solution usually is to rebuild with the fixed debhelper. Please also encourage dropping the -dbg in favour of automatic -dbgsym packages. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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