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Re: Reasonable maximum package size ?



On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 01:32:34PM -0400, Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
> Anthony Towns wrote:
> > Debug packages: (369MB) (not arch:all)
> >      53959746 boson-dbg
> >      55430908 icedove-dbg
> >      56274922 koffice-dbg
> >      59787420 iceape-dbg
> >      86404478 libgl1-mesa-dri-dbg
> 
> These seem to be built with separated debugging symbols. They could
> probably still be reduced in size with compilation flags as discussed in
> the recent thread on dbg packages.

And as said in that thread, debugging symbols without line numbers,
especially on big C++ stuff like most of these, are pretty much useless.

Mike



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