Bug#949945: gcc-snapshot: some executables have debug info, making the package 3 times as big as previously
Package: gcc-snapshot
Version: 1:20200124-1
Severity: normal
One has:
-rw-r--r-- 1 198M 2019-11-30 15:28:32 gcc-snapshot_1%3a20191130-1_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 567M 2020-01-24 23:43:53 gcc-snapshot_1%3a20200124-1_amd64.deb
and
Package: gcc-snapshot
Version: 1:20191130-1
Installed-Size: 1066234
Package: gcc-snapshot
Version: 1:20200124-1
Installed-Size: 3067842
So both the .deb size and the install size have almost tripled!
According to a diff, this is apparently due to some executables from
/usr/lib/gcc-snapshot/libexec/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/10, which now have
debug info and are no longer stripped, making them 10 times as big.
With gcc-snapshot 1:20191130-1, I get:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 30M 2019-11-30 08:57:40 cc1*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 31M 2019-11-30 08:57:40 cc1obj*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 33M 2019-11-30 08:57:40 cc1plus*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 31M 2019-11-30 08:57:40 f951*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 31M 2019-11-30 08:57:40 go1*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 29M 2019-11-30 08:57:40 lto1*
cc1: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=48082c3df2f3c926a3c027af59e2906f7c24225f, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped
With gcc-snapshot 1:20200124-1, I get:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 311M 2020-01-24 12:01:06 cc1*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 315M 2020-01-24 12:01:06 cc1obj*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 342M 2020-01-24 12:01:06 cc1plus*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 310M 2020-01-24 12:01:06 f951*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 335M 2020-01-24 12:01:06 go1*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 297M 2020-01-24 12:01:06 lto1*
cc1: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=27e3f615a396668fe72d9e30bbaaf055ccf5660f, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, with debug_info, not stripped
Since the Debian changelog just says
gcc-snapshot (1:20200124-1) unstable; urgency=medium
* Snapshot, taken from the trunk (20200124).
-- Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jan 2020 12:01:06 +0100
I suppose that this change can be a mistake.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=POSIX (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages gcc-snapshot depends on:
ii binutils 2.33.90.20200122-2
ii lib32z1 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1+b1
ii libc6 2.29-9
ii libc6-dev 2.29-9
ii libc6-dev-i386 2.29-9
ii libc6-dev-x32 2.29-9
ii libc6-i386 2.29-9
ii libc6-x32 2.29-9
ii libgc1c2 1:7.6.4-0.4
ii libgmp10 2:6.1.2+dfsg-4
ii libisl22 0.22-2
ii libmpc3 1.1.0-1
ii libmpfr6 4.0.2-1
ii libzstd1 1.4.4+dfsg-1
ii python3 3.7.5-3
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1+b1
gcc-snapshot recommends no packages.
Versions of packages gcc-snapshot suggests:
ii binutils [binutils-gold] 2.33.90.20200122-2
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