-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Andreas Hanke wrote: ....
No, really: Yesterday I had a closer look at what is currently there in the build service just to find out that the amarok package from there is 19 MB compressed and ca. 100 MB on disk after installation. Guess why, it is compiled with full debug information and not stripped. It's close to ridiculous that people are confusing them with bugfix updates.
That's going to be "fixed" soon.
The "problem" in the Build Service wrt that is that the spec files are
made portable across various distributions (SL Factory 10.1, 10.0, 9.3;
Fedora Core 5; Mandriva) and that we're currently in a phase where a lot
of testing happens, and investigations on how to achieve that.
Normally, from SUSE 9.3 on, the debug symbols of RPM packages are
removed and stripped by using the %debug_package macro, which
automagically creates a -debuginfo package (that hols the debugging
symbols).
It's not totally trivial atm to apply that macro in a portable manner
across distributions, but the problem is being tackled and a portable
solution will be provided soon.
That's the reason why the spec files in the Build Service currently
don't use the %debug_package macro and, hence, include debug symbols in
the binaries.
cheers
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