On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 03:33:12AM -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > #253870: Huge files in -dev package on arm appear like potential unneeded > garbage., > which was filed against the libstdc++6 package. > > It has been closed by one of the developers, namely > Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > > Their explanation is attached below. If this explanation is > unsatisfactory and you have not received a better one in a separate > message then please contact the developer, by replying to this email. > > Debian bug tracking system administrator > (administrator, Debian Bugs database) > > Received: (at 253870-done) by bugs.debian.org; 13 Jun 2004 10:29:00 +0000 > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jun 13 03:29:00 2004 > Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13] (root) > by spohr.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 1 (Debian)) > id 1BZSEW-0004wC-00; Sun, 13 Jun 2004 03:29:00 -0700 > Received: from bolero.cs.tu-berlin.de ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [130.149.19.1]) > by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.9.3p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA23345; > Sun, 13 Jun 2004 12:28:56 +0200 (MEST) > Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > by bolero.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.8/Submit) id i5DASuRm027497; > Sun, 13 Jun 2004 12:28:56 +0200 (MEST) > From: Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 12:28:56 +0200 > To: Len Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Bug#253870: Huge files in -dev package on arm appear like > potential unneeded garbage. > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-Mailer: VM 7.03 under 21.4 (patch 6) "Common Lisp" XEmacs Lucid > Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-bugs.debian.org_2004_03_25 > (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on spohr.debian.org > X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.0 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_20,HAS_BUG_NUMBER > autolearn=no version=2.60-bugs.debian.org_2004_03_25 > X-Spam-Level: > > Len Sorensen writes: > > Package: libstdc++6 > > Version: 3.4.0-2 > > Severity: important > > Tags: experimental > > > > I was trying to install gcc 3.4.0 on my arm system, but was unable to > > install libstdc++6-dev due to lack of disk space (I have 256M of flash). > > No, these are precompiled header files. See #251707 if these are > useful at all.
Well I guess they are not garbage files then. I certainly agree with #251707 that they shouldn't be in the normal -dev package. They certainly aren't essential for the use of the -dev package and waste a rather hefty amount of diskspace. Assuming anyone wants these files, they should be in a seperate package preferably. Compiling c++ is resource bloated enough already. Feel free to close this bug then, as long as #251707 gets considered then.
