Bug#645461: Please consider renaming to perl-dbg to match the naming convention elsewhere in the archive

[Niko Tyni]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:43:17PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 04:08:15PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:

> > Please consider renaming perl-debug to perl-dbg.

> "A debug package is a package with a name ending in -dbg, that contains
> additional information that gdb can use".

I believe the history here is that perl-debug was originally just
/usr/bin/debugperl and the gdb detached symbols came later. See #433631.
Not sure when we dropped libperld.a.

IMO the perl-dbg name emphasizes the gdb symbols rather than the separate
binary. But I don't really care much.

I wonder if we should have a libperl5.14-dbg package too, but if the
actual policy doesn't mandate much, I suppose it'd be overkill.

> Sounds entirely reasonable and fairly un-disruptive. I guess we'll
> want a transitional dummy package for a release cycle, but there are
> no reverse deps.

Ack on the transitional package.
 
> Also, the package description should probably be revised, since it
> doesn't make explicit mention of debugging symbols, only enabling
> debugging features within perl.
> 
> Any objections to doing this now, for transition into unstable with
> whichever of 5.16/5.18 we end up with?

No objections, it just never seemed worth the effort and ddebs were
always "coming soon."
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