Bug#520680: libc6-dbg: Debug symbols not broken up by runtime package
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 4:12 AM, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> wrote:
> 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.
But libc6 is the most important of them all, and it would create,
what, two more packages if you broke them up by CPU? You could at
least split off the AMD64 symbols! (Unless you want to buy every
Debian user a bigger hard drive, of course.)
Incidentally, what other -dbg packages do you refer to?
P.S. Sorry I sent this to just you the first time, Aurelien! I guess I
was expecting reply-to munging. Email is so complicated sometimes :-(.
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