Bug#783876: gcc-5: consider stripping lto1 / cc1 / cc1plus
On Thu, 30 Apr 2015, Matthias Klose wrote:
> On 04/30/2015 10:43 PM, Daniel Serpell wrote:
> > 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 like to avoid this, and only change that near the next Debian release.
The problem with that is that it breaks the expectation that testing
is in an "always releaseable" state.
Sure, the file /etc/debian_version breaks such expectation too, but of
course this is absolutely minor compared with the huge gcc binaries.
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