> On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 05:01:20AM -0400, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > The first thing you need is fully ensymboled binaries. I am still > > upset that the Debian packages don't have symbols, and I really really > > want people to rethink this bug. But given that, you just have to > > have ensymboled binaries. > > Yes, I understand your concerns. However, if we would have unstripped > binaries by default, the distribution would blow up a lot. Note that we have > binaries for about 10 plattforms and 2200 packages. The distribution is > taking several gigabytes to mirror already, and the bandwidth is also a > concern. It's not good enough to strip the binaries at install time as a > user option, because I would still have to d/l it over my $$$ link. > > Most people would not debug the software anyway. Under Linux, an strace is > often all you need. > Shame the symbols cannot be packaged seperate from the binaries. or that there isn't a devel.debian.org that had the same packages with symbols available.
-David Waite
