Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> writes: > I'm looking at my local mirror (slowly) update at the moment, and I've > got to wondering: are the large -dbg packages actually really useful to > anybody? I can't imagine that more than a handful of users ever install > (to pick an example) the amarok-dbg packages, but we have multiple > copies of a 70MB-plus .deb taking up mirror space and bandwidth. I can > understand this for library packages, maybe, but for applications?
They've been vital for me several times with library packages and I've occasionally cursed libraries that didn't have them. I find them much less interesting for applications (and indeed dropped them from one application package that I took over after it was orphaned). There are some exceptions, though; for example, I ship debug symbols for the OpenAFS fileserver since it's often hard to figure out what's going on without a backtrace and upstream is very active and very good about analyzing those backtraces. I similarly think it's important to provide debugging symbols for slapd. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org