Package: dpkg Version: 1.21.7 Severity: wishlist Someone wondered on IRC why we ship symbols files in shared library packages instead of the associated -dev packages and noted that they take 1% of disk space for a fresh debian:sid docker container (and probably more on the -slim variant of the container).
It would be nice if it was possible to exclude symbol files from such environments. This could mean: - Ship them in the -dev package instead. - Ship them in a well-known location in /usr (they are not variable state data after all); this would allow the regular exclusion mechanism already used by -slim images to be used here as well. - Or both. Ansgar
