| linked code). (Does anyone have benchmark results?) If I remember | correctly, it is debian policy to use '-g' and then strip non-library | binaries. I'm sure I'll get howls for suggesting it, but I think that | the policy should be to not use '-g' in the stable distribution.
Greetings, I would agree with this philosophy. I would suggest that probably testing and defiantly unstable should have debugging symbols, but not stable. The problem with this is probably a matter of procedure. As packages go from testing to stable, they would have to be recompiled or stripped. This could be a rather nasty process for the thousands of packages in the debian distro. Another big upshot would be the reduction in the size of the packages. It might make mirroring Debian a little more attractive to reduce the overall size of the stable arm by 20%+ (Guess). Random thoughts, Brooks