On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 15:17 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 10, 2006, Stephen Kennedy wrote: > > What do you think? > > Yes, that would be nice. There are some technical limitations though: > - Packages.gz would grow a bit more, and people are already living in > pain because of its huge size > - it probably requires building the packages two times (one optimized > version without debugging symbols, one non-optimized with them), and > would hit the slow arches horribly > - means more overhead to the packagers / maintainers in maintaining > such as setup (dependencies, conflicts and stuff) > > I think this should be implemented outside of the archive, eg. in some > additional repository, perhaps for popular arches only (did I say > i386?). The procedure would be similar to backports, and one would > simply have to rebuild the source with: > DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="nostrip noopt"
Err, what's wrong with the solution used by e.g. the packages listed by apt-cache search -- gnome -dbg ? -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
