Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (464 mails)

[Marcus Rueckert <darix@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2008-02-09 21:17:25 +0100, Christian Boltz wrote:
> on Mittwoch, 6. Februar 2008, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > - changes to the debuginfo packages
> ...
> >  * split sources from debuginfo named -debugsource -> no objections
>
> This means you basically create duplicates of the src.rpm - even 
> multiple duplicates, one for each arch. OTOH, everybody talks about 
> reducing size, disk usage on mirrors etc.
>
> Is it really necessary to ship the sources in -debugsource packages? 
> IMHO the src.rpms should be enough...

1. the used sources are atm part of the debuginfo package.
2. the sources used for debugging are often only a subset of the
   original source tarball.

    darix

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