Remaining debuginfo packages without sources (ocaml, haskell, erlang, etc)

Jon Ciesla limb at jcomserv.net
Wed May 20 20:22:46 UTC 2009


Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:29:31PM +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
>   
>> Ocaml related packages: why, mediawiki, zenon, hevea, planets
>>     
>
> I suspect that these packages just need debuginfo turned off.  For the
> majority of OCaml packages we do:
>
> %define debug_package %{nil}
>
> The reason is that upstream OCaml doesn't generate meaningful dwarf
> information, and gdb doesn't support OCaml either (there is an
> OCaml-specific debugger).  Both facts are regrettable but require a
> great deal of effort to fix, which we don't have resources to do.
>
> Rich.
>
>   
Committing fix for planets.

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