On 15/04/13 18:59, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 13.04.2013 17:55, schrieb William Giokas: >> All, >> >> With the inclusion of the debug option in pacman 4.1.0, I think it makes >> sense to do something with this in the official repositories. I've >> sifted through some bug reports asking for inclusion of the debug >> symbols in a separate package or repository officially for testing >> purposes. With [extra] and [community] approaching 1.5 and 2 megabytes >> respectively, I think that adding debug symbols directly into these >> repositories would be a bad idea as it would probably add ~50% to those >> databases, and I've already seen some people complain about the sizes. > > This doesn't belong to the pacman mailing list (I'm forwarding to > arch-dev-public and arch-general), but I'll summarize what will probably > happen: Separate debug repositories won't happen - we can't even put > split packages into different repositories, so it is unlikely that we'll > support separate debug repositories - and I don't see the need. Even if > the db sizes double, we are still way under 5MB per db, which is a > reasonable size considering our users' bandwidth nowadays. > > Allan stated that he'll add a glibc-debug package to core, and it is > also likely that KDE will get debug packages in extra (they have been > requested a few times). > > Some links: > > https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-March/024736.html > https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-March/024740.html > DB size is not the only consideration. For example -Ss output will be "polluted". Allan
