Re: debug symbols for gnome apps
On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 15:17 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2006, Stephen Kennedy wrote:
> > What do you think?
>
> Yes, that would be nice. There are some technical limitations though:
> - Packages.gz would grow a bit more, and people are already living in
> pain because of its huge size
> - it probably requires building the packages two times (one optimized
> version without debugging symbols, one non-optimized with them), and
> would hit the slow arches horribly
> - means more overhead to the packagers / maintainers in maintaining
> such as setup (dependencies, conflicts and stuff)
>
> I think this should be implemented outside of the archive, eg. in some
> additional repository, perhaps for popular arches only (did I say
> i386?). The procedure would be similar to backports, and one would
> simply have to rebuild the source with:
> DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="nostrip noopt"
Err, what's wrong with the solution used by e.g. the packages listed by
apt-cache search -- gnome -dbg
?
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