Re: Large data packages in the archive
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 05:52:13PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote:
> I demand that Alexander E. Patrakov may or may not have written...
>
> > Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> >> That already has a problem: How to define "large"? One way, which we
> >> chose for now, is simply "everything > 50MB".
>
> > Random thought: some architecture-dependent -dbg packages are also > 50 MB
> > in size. Shouldn't they get some special treatment, too?
>
> -Zlzma? :-)
FYI, the most recent CVS snapshots of GDB can read zlib-compressed
debug info. If someone gets around to an objcopy patch to create it,
then we can change debhelper to use it...
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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