Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 08:52:28AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > My feeling for some time has been that we should introduce a separate > > section in the archive, or a separate archive and come up with the > > infrastructure to upload -dbg packages to there, with separated > > debugging symbols in them (see dh_strip). This could be done for nearly > > all binary packages, not just libraries. Then people who want all the > > -dbg packages available can just add an apt line and install them at > > will. > > We'll have to do a load of changes to the library packages when we introduce > multiarch in etch anyhow; can't we do this at the same time? (Ie.: "New > policy says you must follow multiarch, and make -dbg packages in > libdevel-dbg"). I fail to see the big point of -dbg for non-libraries, > though.
It would be nice to have, especially for debugging huge packages on slow architectures, where a debug build takes a while. > Archive bloat is still a problem, though. Not if mirror admins can select if they want to mirror -dbg. This means: -dbg must be a separate archive. Thiemo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
