[oe] [meta-java][PATCH 2/2] openjdk-8: combine the -dbg package

[Richard Leitner]

Hi,

On 06/11/2018 08:31 AM, Robert Yang wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> 
> On 06/08/2018 06:07 PM, Richard Leitner wrote:
>> On 06/08/2018 11:02 AM, Wenlin Kang wrote:
>>> On 2018年06月08日 15:39, Richard Leitner wrote:

...

>>>>
>>>> Nonehteless according to my first quick test the demo-dbg package
>>>> contains lots of other debug information too...
>>>> So maybe it would be the better way to fix the content of the different
>>>> dbg packages rather than removing one?
>>>
>>> I also thought this, but  after discussing with the other guys,  the result is a recipe can only have
>>> a -dbg package, and this is OE's policy.
>>
>> Do you have a pointer to this discussion (or if it exists to the according documentation) for us?
> 
> For oe-core's recipes, each recipe only has one dbg package, split dbg packages
> doesn't make any sense since they usually can't be run independently. Please
> see oe-core's commit:
> 
> commit a3b000643898d7402b9e57c02e8d10e677cc9722
> Author: Ross Burton <ross.burton at intel.com>
> Date:   Tue Dec 15 16:32:43 2015 +0000
> 
>     meta: more removals of redunant FILES_${PN}-dbg
> 
>     In some recipes overly-split -dbg packages were merged into PN-dbg.  Unless
>     there's a very good reason, recipes should have a single -dev and -dbg package.

Ok. Thank you for that pointer. That's definitely new to me, but I'm of course fine with it!

regards;Richard.L