[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#819776: Bug#819776: samba-dbg: please drop package in favour of automatic debug packages (-dbgsym)

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Sat Apr 2 07:38:32 UTC 2016


On Sat, 2016-04-02 at 15:20 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> Package: samba-dbg
> Version: 2:4.3.6+dfsg-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> The samba-dbg binary package contains debug symbols from all the
> binary
> packages generated by the samba source package but it depends on
> samba,
> which isn't desirable for CIFS-client-only situations. The new
> automatic debug packages (-dbgsym) in debhelper will split the debug
> symbols up into per-binary-package -dbgsym packages, thus enabling
> installation of debug symbols for winbind/samba-common-bin/etc
> without
> installing samba. For info on automatic debug packages, see this
> page:
> 
> https://wiki.debian.org/AutomaticDebugPackages

I'm working on the packages, how do I opt Samba in to this?

I don't mind trying with the next experimental package, but what do I
need to do?

Andrew Bartlett

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