[arch-general] debug package repositories again

[Joe Julian]

On 08/12/2015 05:02 PM, Leonid Isaev wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 12:36:22PM -0700, Joe Julian wrote:
>> It's been hashed and rehashed, but I need to bring this up again. Every
>> other popular distro has a way of debugging without completely rebuilding a
>> package, saving countless combined hours.
>>
>> Why can't we just have a way of installing the symbols?
> Not enough manpower...
There would be no more manpower needed than there is now. Set the debug 
option to makepkg and put the debug package created in the debug repo.

>
>> Allan has already added the features necessary to make this possible.
>>
>> Why is this so hard? What can I do to help make this a reality?
> Well, there has to be a separate [debug] repo which (most importantly) must be
> kept in-sync with the main ones, or more packages in current repos. Then,
> someone has to actually build those packages.
>
> I would personally prefer that most packages come with debugging enabled by
> default. Surely, there will be a performance cost, but speed is not crucial in
> most cases.
>
> Cheers,

There's no performance impact, just disk space and bandwidth.