Am Samstag, den 20.05.2006, 12:07 +0300 schrieb Ville Skyttä:

FYI, I wrote a packager info blurb about debuginfo packages, see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Debuginfo

thx

[...] I've reported bugs against a bunch of Extras packages lately and some of have been already fixed. Sanity checking debuginfo packages would also be an useful addition to the packaging/reviewing guidelines IMO, so I added it to Packaging/GuidelinesTodo in Wiki.

Yeah, probably.

/me hopes that the list doesn't get longer and longer over time.

The next upstream version of rpmlint (> 0.76) will also have a check for empty debuginfo packages.

We should probably work towards a solution where we run rpmlint or other checks (rpath) automatically in the buildsystem (or on a separate machine).

CU thl

On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 12:07 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:

FYI, I wrote a packager info blurb about debuginfo packages, see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Debuginfo

Potential problem cases, see roughly < 10kB files at: http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/development/i386/debug/?C=S;O=A http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/extras/development/i386/debug/?C=S;O=A (download.fedora.redhat.com's dir indexes aren't sortable)

You might want to add https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=192422

Toshio is dead right, rpmbuild doesn't generate debuginfos if %build is missing. So far all of my local RPMs which exposed this issue were lacking %build.

I've reported bugs against a bunch of Extras packages lately and some of have been already fixed. Sanity checking debuginfo packages would also be an useful addition to the packaging/reviewing guidelines IMO, so I added it to Packaging/GuidelinesTodo in Wiki. The next upstream version of rpmlint (> 0.76) will also have a check for empty debuginfo packages.

You could consider to add a check for missing %build

Ralf