On 4/23/07, Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
Anyway, doubling the size of the archive is less of an issue than it might have been in the past, since we've done the archive split, and since ftp-master has 1.4 Terabytes of disk with half that unused, but it is still a concern, for mirrors, number of DVDs, etc.
It would be nice if the standard iso images that Debian makes available could be made to exclude -dbg packages as a trade-off. It actually felt painful someday when doing jigdo on the archive, only to see loads of -dbg packages getting downloaded, and knowing I wasn't ever gonna use 'em.