I second that. Please do not put symbols in normal packages. I take it there are more people like me who have problems fitting all the packages they like to have on the disk. And symbols eat so much disk space.
Michael -- Dr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager | topsystem Systemhaus GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 52146 Wuerselen Go SF49ers! Go Rhein Fire! | Tel: (+49) 2405/4670-44 Use Debian GNU/Linux! | Fax: (+49) 2405/4670-10 > -----Original Message----- > From: Fabrizio Polacco [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, December 15, 1997 12:17 AM > To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: unstripped stuff in /usr/lib > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > We could let the -dev versions of packages have diversions of the > > libraries to unstripped versions, and have the runtime versions have > > stripped versions. > > Since most of the times -dev packages are needed to compile only > (headers and the symlink from lib.so), I think it'd be better to put > unstripped libraries on a separate -dbg package (as lib_d.a). Those > libs > are easily 10 times the size. > > Usually we have: > runtime pkg: shared lib stripped with --strip-unneeded > develop pkg: static lib stripped with --strip-debug > debug pkg: static lib unstripped > > I'm not sure on what to do for shared unstripped libs (are they > supported by gdb, now?) > > Fabrizio > -- > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | Pluto Leader - Debian Developer & Happy Debian 1.3.1 User - vi-holic > | 6F7267F5 fingerprint 57 16 C4 ED C9 86 40 7B 1A 69 A1 66 EC FB D2 5E > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" > to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
