Feature added by: Richard Biener (rguenther)
Feature #322957, revision 1
Title: Use DWZ to shrink the size of debuginfo
Requested by: Richard Biener (rguenther)
Partner organization: openSUSE.org
Description:
RPM can use DWZ (DWARF compressor) to shrink the size of debuginfo. This has the chance to shrink debuginfo to half or more dependent on how many libraries / binaries a package contains.
DWZ generates regular DWARF, when applicable the consumers need to know about .gnu_debugaltlink which is eventually added to debuginfo objects to refer to another debuginfo object where common DWARF split out from multiple debuginfo objects is stored.
Business case (Partner benefit):
openSUSE.org: Smaller (debug-)media, less download time, smaller footprint on disk, faster gdb startup (parsing less dwarf).
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openSUSE Feature:
https://features.opensuse.org/322957