On Sat, 2018-08-04 at 22:25 +0200, Miro Hrončok wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> an interesting discussion came up in the Python Maint team recently, 
> about not shipping python3-debug and python2-debug.
> 
> On the Chesterton's fence principle [0], I'd would like to know why
> are 
> we building and shipping them before we have a discussion about
> their 
> removal to save build time and remove packaging cruft.
> 
> Anyone has an idea? Those packages are meant to debug Python, yet
> all 
> people I know who do that, build they own Python for that purpose
> (often 
> from the master branch).

I think I used debug builds for this feature :

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/EasierPythonDebugging

https://wiki.python.org/moin/DebuggingWithGdb


> I tracked down the introduction of the python-debug package in this 
> commit [1] by David Malcolm (CCed) @ 8 years ago, added in Fedora 14 
> shortly before upgrade to 2.7. Yet the commit message lacks
> rationale.
> 
> [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence
> [1] 
> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python/c/f020abd35954981b383884105
> dad425ba9c6637a
> 
> Thanks,
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