On 19.08.2016 18:44, Celelibi wrote: > It looks like the size increase is due to debug informations in the > ELF file /usr/lib/gcc/i686-linux-gnu/6/lto1. (Same for cc1 in package > cpp-6.) > > The debug informations do not seem to be mandatory for a proper use of > gcc.
It is necessary for getting accurate backtrace for compiler bugs. Some thing as was done for gcc-5. > Could this be split into a gcc-6-dbg package in order to reduce > gcc-6 to a saner size? Yes, before the release, not now.
