On 02 juli, 2026 - Sergio Durigan Junior wrote: > On Saturday, 13 June 2026, Anton Lundin wrote: > > > A install of gdb in a minimal enviorment currently pulls in about 23,8MB > > of packages. > > > > I'm building a minimal embeded system and would like to be able to do > > simple core dump analysis in it, eg. via systemd-coredump. > > > > I was hoping you'd re-consider the existance of gdb-minimal, which would > > have been a perfect fit for our enviorment. > > > > Just a minimal gdb, with minimal dependencies. > > Thanks for the interest in the package. > > The main reason I decided to remove the package is to reduce the > maintenance burden. I think the main and only(?) niche for a > gdb-minimal package is exactly your case: minimal embedded systems. > Arguably, it's not a very common scenario in my experience. > > Let me think more about this, but offhand I can say that I'm not too > keen on reintroducing the package (especially considering that saving > 23,8MB doesn't seem like a major thing TBH).
No worries. Just stating my case. Our system images are about 300Mb compressed so 24Mb binaries isn't huge, but it's not a insigificant part either. You're the maintainer, so it's your call. If you decide to not build a gdb-minimal, we'll probably just end up building our own from the same source tree to include. //Anton
