With the increasing numbers of libraries, especially libraries in development, we have an increasing number of -dbg packages in the archive. As they are useful only for debugging, and not for the average user, I think they are mostly cluttering the Packages file and mirror space.
Practically speaking, there is a very small chance, when you find a bug in a library, that the -dbg package is available. This is worse if the bug is in a binary and not a library; you often end up rebuilding a debugging version of the package for the submitting user. In fact, the availability of a -dbg version could be useful for every architecture-dependent package. The most obvious solution I can come up for this issue is to build a separate tree with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="noopt nostrip", at least for i386. That means having a dedicated machine that would be used to run a buildd for that. Unfortunately, I don't have such a machine, and I don't know of an available i386 project machine. Are there some people here who'd be interested, or who could point me to available resources? If not, do you have other ideas to make debugging packages easily available? -- .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom
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