[arch-general] debug package repositories again

[Evan Penner]

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.
>

I'll submit a feature request on the bugtracker.

>
>
>> 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.
>

Bandwidth is probably the main problem, although anyone who wants to debug
will probably be fine with that.