On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:10:02AM -0400, Samuel Bronson wrote: > On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 4:12 AM, Aurelien Jarno <aurel...@aurel32.net> wrote: > > > Yes, debugging packages in Debian are all using the same layout: one per > > source package. A lot of them are a lot bigger than libc6-dbg. > > > >> Wouldn't it be better to split the symbols for libc6-foo into a > >> seperate -foo-dbg package? > > > > This would increase the number of packages in the archive for no real > > gain. This is not an option. > > But libc6 is the most important of them all, and it would create, > what, two more packages if you broke them up by CPU? You could at
Yeah, but it means: 1) That the new upload has to go to NEW 2) More packages in the archive This is not possible given people are already complaining they are two many -dbg packages in the archive. > least split off the AMD64 symbols! (Unless you want to buy every > Debian user a bigger hard drive, of course.) Not every user. Very few actually, less than 2% according to popcon.debian.org > Incidentally, what other -dbg packages do you refer to? > Packages like openjdk-6-dbg, libwebkit-1.0-2-dbg, kdepim-dbg, iceape-dbg, libboost-dbg, xulrunner-1.9-dbg, etc. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
