On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 10:25:06PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > 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? > > There are people working on ways of compressing the debuginfo > information, and I've been told they might have results within a > couple of months. Part of the problem is that depending on how the > package is built, the -dbg packages can be huge, so it makes the > cost/benefit ratio somewhat painful. >
Compressing -dbg files using dh_builddeb -Zlzma, which uses lzma compression instead of gzip, gives an average gain of 1.88 in size for the current -dbg packages we have in sid. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
