Re: dpkg-deb: should give a hint when it fails due to filling /tmp

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

(dropping dpkg maintainers from cc)
Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> 2012/7/13 Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>:
>> Martin-Éric Racine wrote:

>>>                                                      the resulting DEB
>>> is a whopping 488MB in size, compared to 22MB for the stock Debian
>>> linux-image-3.2.0-3-686-pae built using the exact same .config file.
>>
>> That's because the Debian packaging strips debugging symbols into a
>> separate -dbg package.
>
> I'm already aware of the effects of stripping binaries. However, you
> gotta admit that 488MB compared to 22MB is just ridiculous; something
> is definitely broken in those 3.2 build scripts.

Are the build scripts responsible for the size of debugging symbols?
I don't follow.

Or do you mean that the size of the kernel -dbg packages is
ridiculous?  In that case, you are barking up the wrong tree --- the
"make deb-pkg" code is not what determines that, and all that changed
between 2.6.32 and 3.2 is that the stock Debian configuration started
enabling debug symbols for the sake of systemtap et al.

Jonathan