Le mardi 11 août 2009 à 17:26 -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : > > The main purpose of setting up an archive of debugging symbols is to be > > able to use them transparently without installation, so that doesn’t > > change much. > > I don't understand how what you say is related to what I said. How does > having them in a separate archive affect whether or not I have to download > a 50GB package to get debugging symbols for KDE? Whether that download > happens automatically or not, it's still a serious issue for some network > bandwidth profiles.
By transparently, I mean without having to download the whole packages. Most of our users wouldn’t have the bandwidth to debug KDE or GNOME packages otherwise. > > That said, it’s clearly a good reason to allow splitting ddebs manually > > at the maintainer’s discretion for some of the largest packages. > > Or using one debugging package per binary package by default, which > provides a level of granularity that makes this just not an issue. And creates other issues. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in `- future understand things” -- Jörg Schilling
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