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

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 08:44:15AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> 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."

I started this, but it wasn't quite as straightforward as hoped owing
to the hand-crafted rules file. I've pushed my work to
dom/rename-perl-debug and will probably pick it up at some point
(it mostly works, but the transition package isn't built correctly).

http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=perl/perl.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/dom/rename-perl-debug

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