On 15/04/13 19:46, Lukas Jirkovsky wrote:
On 15 April 2013 09:59, Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
Separate debug repositories won't happen - we can't even put split packages into different repositories
Fair enough.
Even if the db sizes double, we are still way under 5MB per db, which is a reasonable size considering our users' bandwidth nowadays.
It's not only the size of the database. I can see the problem with the size of repositories if someone keeps a mirror to save bandwidth if they have lots of computers, but they don't need debug packages.
On 15 April 2013 10:11, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
DB size is not the only consideration. For example -Ss output will be "polluted".
Maybe it could be filtered on the pacman side, ie. add some switch that would enable/disable showing of -debug packages.
Not keen on that... The issues that prevent split packages going across repos are entirely different to what is required to keep a separate debug package repo. In fact, I will provide the needed patches for a separate [debug] and [community-debug] repo if that is what is decided to happen. Allan