Comment # 7 on bug 1012533 from Richard Biener

(In reply to Tom de Vries from comment #6)
> (In reply to Richard Biener from comment #0)
> > This blocks enabling compressed debuginfo sections in Factory.
> 
> I wonder if using objcopy to compress the debug sections rather than the
> linker might simplify things here.
> 
> We could do the compression in find-debuginfo.sh, after debugedit and
> dwz-compression, and then we have packages with compressed debug info,
> without having to fix this debugedit PR and the corresponding dwz PR
> (swo#24725).

Hmm, yeah - this sounds like a neat way to circumvent some of the issues.

I think RedHat also keeps some bare debug info to allow pretty backtraces
in the binaries where compression could reduce the binary size penalty.