On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 03:35:55PM -0300, [email protected] wrote: >are there any policy on including dbg packages in iso images? i dont it >should be expected that users has immediate interest in said packages, unless >im missing something. debian also asks the user permission to send to the >developers which packages one installs, so it can be sorted in the images. > >what i propose is that dbg and non-dbg packages be separated, say, the former >are contained in DVDs 6-13 and the later, contained in DVDs 1-5, similar >division being done to images of different sizes. the main benefit is that >"common" users (non-developers) would only download the first few images, >instead of downloading the entire image set.
Hi Jordon, Yup, that's a reasonable suggestion and something that we're mostly already doing. The popcon data (as you suggest) is used in sorting the list of packages for inclusion into our CD/DVD images. Most folks won't have -dbg stuff installed, so they should sort low down. Checking the current list from today's weekly build, there are a few such packages higher up the list such as libc-dbg and valgrind-dbg, but most are quite a way down. AIUI also, the recent code for automatically-added -dbg packages does not put them in the main Debian archive so they won't appear on any CD/DVD images in that case. That's something to maybe look at in the near future... :-) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews
