30 May
2012
30 May
'12
1:12 p.m.
James Harper wrote:
The reason why they're separate packages, and not installed by default, is because they're a non-negligible increase in size. To take an example at random:
If done properly, the dbg builds would have various compiler optimisations turned off too
AIUI they're not separate builds. They just take the debugging symbols from foo.so and move them into a separate file. I could be completely wrong about that, I don't really understand if/how that would work, I just got that impression...
It would appear that you are correct http://wiki.debian.org/DebugPackage http://wiki.debian.org/HowToGetABacktrace also has some useful info about how to use them. If I was king they would be called symbol packages :) James