On 30.01.2022 12.08, Morten Linderud via arch-dev-public wrote:
I'm very happy to announce that debug packages in Arch Linux has been deployed :)
This work began after FOSDEM 2020 and was announced in November 2020. However because of time constraints it took quite a while before we managed to deploy it.
Currently we have a debuginfod service which is capable of delivering source listings and debug symbols to users with gdb, delve and other debuggers. This can be enabled by installing the `debuginfod` package and setting the environment variable `DEBUGINFOD_URLS="https://debuginfod.archlinux.org"`. The `debuginfod` package is also going to be providing this variable :)
The debug package repositories themself are not publicly accessible nor distributed to our mirrors. This is because there is a general concern around the repository size increase. The goal is to take a look at distributing them and/or making them accessible in the future.
We have three sponsored machines, which are used as package mirrors and archive mirrors[1]. At the time of writing they have 14TB available storage each, so we could mirror the debug packages to them. [1] {america,asia,europe}.{archive,mirror}.pkgbuild.com - Kristian