Re: Making debug packages from main GNOME packages
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Christian Marillat wrote:
> From: Christian Marillat <marillat.christian@wanadoo.fr>
> Subject: Re: Making debug packages from main GNOME packages
>
> Sebastien Bacher <seb128@debian.org> writes:
>
> > Christian Marillat <marillat.christian@wanadoo.fr> writes:
> >
> >> This is not true for all packages. For example libgnomeui can be build
> >> with --enable-debug, who is a good option for the -dbg packages but
> >> surely generate unecessary output for the normal package.
> >
> > But if you think that the --enable is a problem (ressources waste, ..)
> > just use the dh_strip option, it's better than nothing ...
>
> Yes of course. --enable-debug only display debugging informations for
> libgnomeui itself. May be interesting for GNOME coders but not for ours
> users.
>
> Christian
And that's where you are just plain wrong. Separating the debug info
from the binaries will result in a (much) smaller memory footprint, ergo
less waste of resources and better performance.
kr,
Chipzz AKA
Jan Van Buggenhout
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