Bug#43787: well, here it is: alternate proposal (was: changed title...)
On Sat, Sep 11, 1999 at 02:45:50PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 10-Sep-99, 08:04 (CDT), Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Raul suggested to mention core dumps, which is indeed a good idea.
> > I extended this to give a general rationale for debugging symbols.
>
> [*snip* of suggested wording]
>
> While I don't feel a real strong objection, I don't think this kind of
> stuff (rationale) belongs in the standard. It's already wordy enough.
Well, it is not without precedence. For a lot of things in the policy, we
also give the rationale behind it.
I think it only appears wordy because the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS syntax is
explained at lengths. I hope that someday we will find more uses of it
(special optimization... whatever else), and then this is moved to another
section or so, and we will only have a reference in this chapter ("...if
`debug' is specified in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS" point).
Thanks,
Marcus
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