Re: Bug#43787: changed title, and remade the proposed change
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 02:52:59PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> This is why I think a suggestion is too weak. You can equally well remove
> the suggestion, because I can't rely on it and have to check always if a
> package follows the policy suggestion or does it differently.
No.
You can always build with DEB_DEBUG_OPTIONS=debug and expect that the
executables created will have debug symbols. This is already true even
without this policy being implemented.
...Ben's proposal is purely an optimization. [I'm not sure if anyone
has benchmarked it -- and while I hope someone cares about benchmarking
optimizations, I don't care enough myself. My packages compile in a
few seconds on the machine I build them on. Then again, I don't run a
build machine.]
It's true that Ben's proposal doesn't address building new variant
packages where the installed executables have debugging symbols, but
that was never the problem it was trying to solve.
And, for debugging, you probably want the source environment around...
--
Raul
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