Parallel Installable Debuginfo

Summary

debuginfo packages can be installed in parallel to make it easier to observe what programs are doing or to debug when they have crashed. That way debugging, tracing or profiling programs can be done independent of whether they are 32bit, 64bit, a slightly newer or older version than currently installed or even from a different architecture.

Owner

Name: Mark Wielaard
Email: mjw@redhat.com
Release notes owner:

Current status

Targeted release: Fedora 25
Last updated: 2016-02-24
Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

Detailed Description

Currently only one version of a debuginfo package can be installed for a given package. Even on a multi-lib system you cannot install the 64-bit and 32-bit versions of a debuginfo package in parallel (technically you sometimes can, because of RPM file coloring, the 64bit version of the .debug files win over the 32bit version - causing lots of confusion).

Benefit to Fedora

Scope

Proposal owners:

Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Release engineering: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
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