[Rpm-ecosystem] debugedit project setup

Dmitry V. Levin ldv at altlinux.org
Mon Mar 29 11:00:55 UTC 2021


Hi Mark,

On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 10:13:38PM +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi Panu,
> 
> I added debugedit at sourceware.org to the CC.
> 
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 03:52:53PM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > On 3/23/21 2:29 PM, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > > On 3/22/21 7:42 PM, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> > > > There is a test debugedit-0.1 release to see whether this works. But I
> > > > would like to make sure first that things are setup so that flatpak and
> > > > rpm can use this as is before people start packaging it. Once we know
> > > > it can be used as replacement for the built-in rpm/flatpak debugedit we
> > > > do a proper debugedit 1.0 release.
> > > 
> > > Awesome. I'll make it a priority to see that we transition, if at all
> > > possible, to the external debugedit in rpm 4.17 already. Stay tuned...
> > 
> > FWIW, here's a quick-n-dirty package of debugedit 0.1:
> > 
> > https://laiskiainen.org/rpm/debugedit/
> 
> Nice, thanks.  Would it make sense to add the debugedit.spec to the
> debugedit sources themselves so people can easily create an rpm?
> 
> Does it actually make sense to install everything under bindir?

At least debugedit executable has a documented command line interface,
so I'd say it belongs to bindir.


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ldv


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