On Tuesday 10 July 2007 17:57, Michael Edwards wrote: > Debug packages are usually only of interest to people working on development > of the package in question. I would leave them out, personally.
This is a "difficult" issue. If you want somebody to pass you back useful debugging information (reproduce the crash in gdb and send you some useful info) he will need the debuginfo package. So it is of use also for users who want to help debugging. In the distros you typically have a subdirectory where the debuginfo stuff is stored, just in case. (BTW: you need it for analysing a core dump, too.). I'd leave it to the package maintainer, but it might be reasonable to have a place where to store the debuginfo packages separately, such that when one wants to download a local copy of the repository he won't get them by default. Regards, Erich ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
