severity 532757 wishlist thanks On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Martin Pitt<martin.p...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > The erlang-base package is about 7 MB, which is very large for a > runtime environment. This is an issue for using e. g. couchdb in an > embedded environment, or shipping couchdb/erlang runtime on > distribution CDs (which have limited space).
1) I wouldn't like to split erlang-base more (except probably separating compiler and hipe, but this requires additional investigations because stdlib has references to compiler and escript with -mode(compile) directive will not work without compiler too, so I'd like to be sure that these drawbacks are minor and there aren't other problems). 2) As for debug information, it's better to ask upstream first why they include debug info and don't give a way to strip it (except patching the source). I'm afraid that since everyone uses unstripped beam files then stripping them will reveal some unusual bugs. And I wouldn't like Debian users to be guinea pigs. > > In https://launchpad.net/bugs/385093 we are currently discussing to > move the debug information out of erlang-base into a separate package > (this could just go into erlang-dev, or into a new erlang-debug). > > We would like to modify the package so that erlang-base gets stripped > libraries (with e. g. erts/emulator/utils/make_preload beam_strip()) > and that erlang-debug would ship the unstripped libraries in an > alternate preferred library search path. > > However, we don't want to do this without your consent/acceptance of > the patch, since that would introduce a large incompatibility of > reverse dependencies between Debian and Ubuntu. 3) Currently, Erlang in Ubuntu is essentially unmaintained, so keeping compatibility with Debian packages is reasonable. But if you will maintain it (and fix Ubuntu-specific bugs) then I don't see why compatibility is necessary. -- Sergei Golovan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
