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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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