From 25831409787d5a1fb1473da6a64d1b0f4ea48636 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cristian Le <cristian.le@mpsd.mpg.de>
Date: Apr 09 2024 12:22:57 +0000
Subject: Add note about `debugsourcefiles.list`


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diff --git a/guidelines/modules/ROOT/pages/index.adoc b/guidelines/modules/ROOT/pages/index.adoc
index 988a295..2c396f2 100644
--- a/guidelines/modules/ROOT/pages/index.adoc
+++ b/guidelines/modules/ROOT/pages/index.adoc
@@ -1623,6 +1623,8 @@ When the contents of subpackages, including the `+-devel+` package,
 are actually architecture-independent, they may still be marked noarch.
 Since the base package for a header library typically has no `+%files+` list,
 this may result in an arched package that builds only noarch rpms.
+This may require adding `+%global debug_package %{nil}+` to the spec file in
+order to avoid empty `+debugsourcefiles.list+` issues.
 
 === Statically Linking Executables