From 4991b7e23d3971e6944586d4ab60175ff9193151 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vít Ondruch Date: Jun 03 2020 16:15:18 +0000 Subject: Don't obsolete debuginfo packages --- diff --git a/guidelines/modules/ROOT/pages/Debuginfo.adoc b/guidelines/modules/ROOT/pages/Debuginfo.adoc index 54140f7..4205d40 100644 --- a/guidelines/modules/ROOT/pages/Debuginfo.adoc +++ b/guidelines/modules/ROOT/pages/Debuginfo.adoc @@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ If you wish to disable generation of the useless debuginfo package while waiting It is normal for noarch package builds to not produce a debuginfo package. If it's missing in other cases (where it has not been explicitly disabled), something's wrong. One such case is a https://bugzilla.redhat.com/192422[missing %build section] with some rpmbuild versions. +== Don't obsolete debuginfo packages + +In case there is removed subpackage or the subpackage is changed from arch to noarch, the associated -debuginfo package might be left behind. This might be issue, when `+fedora-debuginfo+` repository is enabled during system upgrade. Nevertheless, because the debuginfo packages has no dependencies, they are parallel installable and useful for coredump analysis, don't obsolete them anywhere. + == Resources * debuginfo package listings for Fedora, sorted by size. Most debuginfo packages roughly up to 20kB in size are candidates that should be examined - however significantly larger -debuginfo packages may suffer from the same problems too, esp. in the "missing -g" case.