(putting back the CC to the bug, which will probably need to be reassigned to 'linux') 2012/7/13 Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com>: > (dropping dpkg maintainers from cc) > Martin-Éric Racine wrote: >> 2012/7/13 Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com>: >>> Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > >>>> the resulting DEB >>>> is a whopping 488MB in size, compared to 22MB for the stock Debian >>>> linux-image-3.2.0-3-686-pae built using the exact same .config file. >>> >>> That's because the Debian packaging strips debugging symbols into a >>> separate -dbg package. >> >> I'm already aware of the effects of stripping binaries. However, you >> gotta admit that 488MB compared to 22MB is just ridiculous; something >> is definitely broken in those 3.2 build scripts. > > Are the build scripts responsible for the size of debugging symbols? > I don't follow. > > Or do you mean that the size of the kernel -dbg packages is > ridiculous?
I mean that the size of the kernel package produced by 'make deb-pkg' from the 3.2 vanilla tree, even after disabling debug symbols, is highly suspicious, compared to the stock Debian kernel with the same source. Martin-Éric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAPZXPQcBC4=zf5syjndvrwjdshyufokmjhc8urqcbhwbzje...@mail.gmail.com
