https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1166406 https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1166406#c42 --- Comment #42 from Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.com> --- To summarize - vmlinux cannot be moved to debuginfo package - changing the way debuginfo packages are generated is infeasible, and this would need substantial change - some tools need only vmlinux, not debuginfo, and forcing installation of debuginfo for those is a no-go - moving vmlinux into separate package is possible (on non-ppc) provided tools that assume vmlinux is present are fixed up (there are some additional binaries used exclusively for debugging - eg. the s390 boot stub, vdso?) - some of these tools are something like debug tools or performance measurement tools that can be fixed up as problems are found - some of these tools may be part of basesystem and it is critical that they work from the start on all platforms - complex dependencies can be used to fix up debug package installation on SLE15, on SLE12 this cannot be reasonably expected to work. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.