Re: RFC: Support for separate debug info files

[Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>]

Hi Daniel,

>> >   My theory is that the only benefit gained by being able to ship a
>> >   stripped debuginfo file as opposed to an unstripped one is that it
>> >   reduces the shipping size, making a distribution smaller.  I am
>> >   assuming that hard disk space is not really an issue, just the size
>> >   of the shipped binaries.
>> 
>> I think the idea is to omit the debug info files altogether from the
>> distribution.  It'll make the debug info packages take longer to
>> download, but it's not a show-stopper, I think.
>
> For me it probably is a show-stopper - the issue is not download time
> or disk space, but CD size.  Duplicating all the binaries we want to
> provide debug info for would probably push us over the edge.  It could
> be done separately though!  This will at least let us test it...

Plus you could ship the debug info CD separately.  Maybe at additional
cost to the customer, or after a delay, so that the time-to-market for
a new release is reduced ?

Cheers
        Nick