Bug#1095738: Removal of gdb-minimal leads to significantly larger disk footprint

[Michael Biebl]

Am 11.02.25 um 12:26 schrieb Michael Biebl:

# apt install gdb
Installing:
   gdb

Installing dependencies:
   libbabeltrace1  libc6-dbg  libsource-highlight-common  
libsource-highlight4t64

Vorgeschlagene Pakete:
   gdb-doc  gdbserver

REMOVING:
   gdb-minimal

Summary:
   Upgrading: 0, Installing: 5, Removing: 1, Not Upgrading: 1
   Download size: 15,2 MB
   Space needed: 49,0 MB / 166 GB available



So, it is possible that the gdb binary package itself is not that much
larger, but accounting for all dependencies, it indeed is.

Looking at this a bit more closely:

gdb-minimal: installed size 10,5 M

gdb: installed size 40,1 M                 + 29,6 M
libbabeltrace: installed size              +  0,6 M
libc6-dbg: installed size                  + 17,2 M
libsource-highlight4t64: installed size    +  1,3 M
libsource-highlight-common: installed size +  0,3 M
                                           ========
                                             49,0 M





Michael

So contrary to the NEWS entry, the gdb binary package is not 1 M larger, but 29,6 M, or put in other terms: 3x as large. As desktop environments like Plasma depend on gdb, it would be great to have the gdb-minimal package back.

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