[OE-core] [PATCH 0/2] package.bbclass: improve auto debug package splitting order

[richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org]

On Fri, 2018-09-14 at 16:49 +0800, Hongxu Jia wrote:
> Hi RP,
> 
> Is it necessary to split multiple sub dbg packages or only
> one dbg is allowed? If the former, this fix makes sense.

Only one is recommended and the code only works properly in some cases
for one. I'd like to be in a position where we could have that as the
only thing we supported but its simply not practical in some cases.

The debug package dependency handling probably needs a rethink but that
would be 2.7 development cycle, its too late for 2.6 now.

> I know in oe-core, almost one dbg package per recipe, but
> in oe, 21 recipes have extra sub dbg package and 18 of them
> did not set NOAUTOPACKAGEDEBUG = "1".
> 
> So rather than modify them one by one tediously, how about to
> improve auto debug package splitting order? If ${PN}-dbg exists,
> split the unsplit debug file to ${PN}-dbg, if ${PN}-dbg does not 
> exist, still split them to first dbg package.

I don't really want to encourage multiple -dbg packages per recipe and
I am a little concerned about making changes to the core packaging code
with the release coming up. Fixing the recipes, although tedious may be
safer/better rather than encouraging people to do things which aren't
well supported.

Cheers,

Richard