Hi Dne Mon, 8 Oct 2007 11:51:12 +0200 Philipp Marek <philipp@marek.priv.at> napsal(a): > I'd assume it's not so much the binary size of the packages, but the number of > them ... that's why I asked whether a new branch might be better for them. > Like "stable", "testing", "unstable", "experimental" ... "dbginfo". Then > normal users wouldn't even see this packages. It is the size of packages what matters. In most cases debug symbols in -dbg packages much larger than stripped package itself. Just random package that I maintain: $ apt-cache show libgammu2 libgammu2-dbg | egrep 'Package:|^Size:' Package: libgammu2 Size: 423010 Package: libgammu2-dbg Size: 972178 -- Michal Čihař | http://cihar.com | http://blog.cihar.com
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