[Gllug] Getting technical about email

[Mike Brodbelt]

Philip Hands wrote:

> You will probably be interested in this explanation of the -dbg packages
> 
>   http://lists.netisland.net/archives/plug/plug-2006-02/msg00046.html
> 
> I should have been a little more verbose, the Debian -dbg packages contain
> _only_ the debug symbols, so you get the best of both worlds for packages
> that have them, you can save disk space, but if you need the symbols
> they're a single apt-get away, and since you're not rebuilding anything,
> your coredump should work fine even if you install the -dbg package after
> the event.

That's very cool. I hadn't realised you could have the symbols entirely
separated from the binaries.

> As for the "it's not that significant an amount of space, so let's leave
> them in" I'll again cite evolution as an example -- it's -dbg package is
> over 6MB packaged, 14.9MB installed -- that's as against the stripped
> package's 2.4MB & 7.6MB respectively.

Ow. Apart from the disk space, clearly the bandwidth use for Debian
mirrors would be much worse if packages were unstripped by default....

Mike
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