Bug#520680: libc6-dbg: Debug symbols not broken up by runtime package
severity 520680 wishlist
tag 520680 + wontfix
thanks
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 05:33:44PM -0400, Samuel Bronson wrote:
> Package: libc6-dbg
> Version: 2.7-15
> Severity: normal
>
> It looks like the symbols for all three of libc6, libc6-amd64, and
> libc6-i686 are included in this package. Combined with the fixing of
> #516516, this results (well, will result, for me) in a quite large
> package, parts of which may be quite useless -- I don't even have an
> AMD64, for instance.
Yes, debugging packages in Debian are all using the same layout: one per
source package. A lot of them are a lot bigger than libc6-dbg.
> Wouldn't it be better to split the symbols for libc6-foo into a
> seperate -foo-dbg package?
>
This would increase the number of packages in the archive for no real
gain. This is not an option.
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