Bug#783876: Seriously, these binaries should be stripped by default
Control: severity -1 serious
Justification: wasting many megabytes of space and download
We're shipping broken toolchain packages 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.
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?
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
"When C++ is your hammer, everything looks like a thumb." -- Steven M. Haflich
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