[RFC] cygport: split debuginfo packages

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Tue Jul 17 19:55:00 GMT 2012


On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 09:48:31PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote:
>Christopher Faylor writes:
>> Maybe the .debuginfo files should be in a "Debug" category.
>
>I don't think that would be the right thing to do.  It would only be of
>help if the debuginfo packages were not shown in the other categories
>together with the installation packages, but a flat Debug category seems
>even less appealing.  It should be possible to get the debuginfo for
>"this package" directly from the package selection, not rummaging around
>in the Debug category trying to find something that looks like it might
>be related to "that package".

Ok, let me put it this way.  I'm not keenly interested in spending time
updating setup.exe and the setup.ini generation tools for special case
handling of debuginfo.

Maybe that helps clarify things.

cgf



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