Hi, On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 10:12:22PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: > I'm looking at my local mirror (slowly) update at the moment, and I've > got to wondering: are the large -dbg packages actually really useful > to anybody? I can't imagine that more than a handful of users ever > install (to pick an example) the amarok-dbg packages, but we have > multiple copies of a 70MB-plus .deb taking up mirror space and > bandwidth. I can understand this for library packages, maybe, but for > applications?
I was glad to have them available for e.g. tracking down some nasty xulrunner bugs on non-x86 -- and I guess xulrunner only counts half as library. Same for liferea, webkit (a library, okay: :) and some webkit browsers (midori comes to my mind). Just an idea coming to my mind: What if they are available from their own APT repository which doesn't need to be mirrored everywhere? Somehow in a similar way as the CD images are distributed separately. Ok, the CD images are no APT repository and splitting off the -dbg packages to a separate repository would mean that what is built from one source package would have to be split up (probably after upload) and put into different APT repositories. Regards, Axel -- Axel Beckert - a...@deuxchevaux.org, a...@noone.org - http://noone.org/abe/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org