> * Stop complaining about the size of these experimental packages, > particularly xlibs-dev; they contain everything that they are supposed > to per Debian policy, and will get much smaller when I do the official > release because I will be stripping them. I am presently not stripping > these packages because I am hoping some enterprising users might be > willing to help track down bugs by providing backtraces. (In any case, > the gargantuan xlibs-dev package is not even necessary unless you're > compiling X clients -- but keep in mind that you MUST NOT compile > official Debian packages against these libraries until XFree86 4.x > .debs are officially released.)
If what you ask are just stack traces, you could compile the code with -g1 instead of -g (you lose line numbers though). You could also compile some things with -g and other with -g1...
