Re: -dbg packages mirror occupation: ~1/3, 220 GB
Simon Paillard (spaillard@debian.org) wrote on 27 June 2012 01:07:
>Out of ~610 GB of data in mirrors (all archs, source, and arch-indep), there
>are around 230 GB of -dbg packages !
>
>-> The impact is 1/3 of mirror space (that means mirror sponsors cost) is used
> for dbg packages.
This also happens with other distros. The problem is that the cost is
significant but usefullness is small because very few users pull them.
>* Define some guidelines to determine whether building -dbg packages is worth.
This seems to be the best. Users who can use them could just pull the
source and compile with debug.
>Involving ftpmasters:
>* Split to another archive, similar to the data.debian.org project ?
That's more administrative overhead.
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