Bug#520680: libc6-dbg: Debug symbols not broken up by runtime package
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:10:02AM -0400, Samuel Bronson wrote:
> 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
Yeah, but it means:
1) That the new upload has to go to NEW
2) More packages in the archive
This is not possible given people are already complaining they are two
many -dbg packages in the archive.
> least split off the AMD64 symbols! (Unless you want to buy every
> Debian user a bigger hard drive, of course.)
Not every user. Very few actually, less than 2% according to
popcon.debian.org
> Incidentally, what other -dbg packages do you refer to?
>
Packages like openjdk-6-dbg, libwebkit-1.0-2-dbg, kdepim-dbg,
iceape-dbg, libboost-dbg, xulrunner-1.9-dbg, etc.
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