Bug#1009300: dpkg: allow symbol files to be excluded from install

2022-04-13 Thread Guillem Jover
On Mon, 2022-04-11 at 10:13:52 +0200, Ansgar wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.21.7 > Severity: wishlist > Someone wondered on IRC why we ship symbols files in shared library > packages instead of the associated -dev packages While there is in theory no technical limitation why these could not

Bug#1009300: dpkg: allow symbol files to be excluded from install

2022-04-11 Thread Ansgar
Package: dpkg Version: 1.21.7 Severity: wishlist Someone wondered on IRC why we ship symbols files in shared library packages instead of the associated -dev packages and noted that they take 1% of disk space for a fresh debian:sid docker container (and probably more on the -slim variant of the