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.ht... https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-March/024740.ht...