Bug#783876: gcc-5: consider stripping lto1 / cc1 / cc1plus

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi!

On Thu, 2015-04-30 at 17:43:00 -0300, Daniel Serpell wrote:
> Package: gcc-5
> Version: 5.1.1-2
> Severity: wishlist

> Currently, gcc-5 packages are really big because the files under
> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/5 are not stripped, and each one of
> lto1, cc1 and cc1plus is about 130MB.
> 
> Please, can those files be striped in the default installation?

I'd second that, in my case all the involved packages are using almost
1 GiB of additional disk space.

In the meantime I'm stripping the files on installation/upgrade via
triggers:

  <http://git.hadrons.org/cgit/debian/gcc-on-diet.git/>

in case others find it useful. And I guess I could create a package
repository for it, if there's demand.

Thanks,
Guillem