On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 10:12:22PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > 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?
There are people working on ways of compressing the debuginfo information, and I've been told they might have results within a couple of months. Part of the problem is that depending on how the package is built, the -dbg packages can be huge, so it makes the cost/benefit ratio somewhat painful. If the -dbg files were more like these sizes: 224 e2fslibs-dbg_1.41.3-1_i386.deb 52 libss2-dbg_1.41.3-1_i386.deb 452 e2fsprogs-dbg_1.41.3-1_i386.deb 48 libuuid1-dbg_1.41.3-1_i386.deb 76 libblkid1-dbg_1.41.3-1_i386.deb 48 uuid-runtime-dbg_1.41.3-1_i386.deb 44 libcomerr2-dbg_1.41.3-1_i386.deb I doubt there's be too much concern.... - Ted -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org