Re: Bug#783876: Seriously, these binaries should be stripped by default
On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 11:40:34PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
>Control: severity -1 important
>
>On 21.04.2016 19:28, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>>Control: severity -1 serious
>>Justification: wasting many megabytes of space and download
>
>sorry, I don't see this as a justification.
>
>>We're shipping broken toolchain packages
>
>please stop trolling. Nothing is broken.
Thanks for the insult. :-(
There's no trolling here - they're broken according to policy ("by
default all installed binaries should be stripped"), and this change
is causing real problems for people.
>>that are intentionally too
>>large, and this is causing issues elsewhere. The "netinst" CD image
>>that we advertise to people as the default Debian image to use for
>>most installations is now huge. The multi-arch netinst no longer even
>>fits on a single CD due to this waste of space.
>
>So why does the netinst image need a compiler?
It's been a feature for years that we include a compiler and kernel
headers to allow people to build third party modules on amd64/i386.
>>There's not been any visible progress on this bug in since last
>>year. If upstream want to ship uncompressed binaries for diagnostics
>>and can't cope with separate debug symbols, maybe ship separate
>>alternative unstripped toolchain packages and point to those if people
>>want them?
>
>The unstripped binaries should be installed by default on porter boxes and
>buildds. Yes, this is a trade-off between (largely my) developer time, the
>ability for Debian developers to produce complete bug reports, and an
>increase on machine/bandwidth resources. If I have the choice to select
>between human and other resources, I'll try to keep the time I have to spend
>on reproducing things rather small.
With separate -unstripped (or whatever) packages, they could be
installed by admin choice in those situations.
>> There's not been any visible progress on this bug in since last
>> year.
>
>So you step in here like a bull in a china shop, raising the severity without
>doing anything else? You are working for a Linux and open source aware
>organization, have you tried to get developer time to address issues like
>these? Have you sent a patch proposal to implement such a change either
>upstream or on the packaging side?
Please don't go there. We're all busy, you know that.
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