[Piuparts-devel] Bug#873924: piuparts should also test -dbgsym packages

[Adrian Bunk]

On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 02:16:54PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote:
>...
> Is it is possible to have a file conflict between two -dbgsym packages,
> without having the same file conflict already between the two binary packages?
> Do you have a case where this happens? Maybe it can happen when the packages
> use dpkg-divert, and these diversions are not mimicked by the -dbgsym packages?
> I have to admit that I don't know anything about the -dbgsym packages. 

Among the 10 cases I found many were just symptoms of packaging bugs.

-dbgsym packages are normal packages.

In theory it is possible that binary packages from the same source 
package (or even different source packages) contain the same binary
and that it is for some reason not covered by conflists or otherwise 
fixable. If we end up having this problem, the proper way forward
would be to add functionalty to dh_strip to cover this situation
(similar to what it already does for -dbg migration).

> -Ralf.

cu
Adrian

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