[Debichem-devel] Bug#487688: gElemental - dbg packages

[Daniel Leidert]

Cesare Tirabassi wrote:
> On Monday 23 June 2008 18:18:54 Michael Banck wrote:
> > > I have added a debugging package to the libelemental python bindings
> > > package; I think this could be a nice addition to gelemental too. Just
> > > in case you want to consider it, I attach a patch to this email.
> >
> > How many reverse-dependencies for gelemental are there, and what
> > applications are using python-elemental?  If there are no frequent
> > crasher bugs which are hard to track down, I don't think debug packages
> > are really needed.
> >
> 
> You can't possibly justify wether a dbg package is needed or not a priori.

We can.

> It is an airbag, you might never need it yet it is a good idea to have it there, 
> just when you might need it.

DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip

exists and gelemental is built within minutes on any recent system.

> Also, in this particular case we provide the libelemental library which
> can be 
> accessed by user's applications.

There are currently none and upstream is also not active. I didn't get any
response on my suggested patches.

> Providing a dbg package to support the 
> debugging of those applications seems a good thing to do.

This is possible without an explicit -dbg package.

> Its up to you as maintainers to decide if the drawback (archive space?) is
> worth the potential benefits.

At the moment I would reject your request. There are no regular crash reports,
there is not much development activity and no huge user base. If necessary
it can be compiled with nostrip set and any reproducible crash can be examined.

Regards, Daniel
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