Request: -dbg packages for major Gnome applications

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Sebastien Bacher">

> Le mardi 07 décembre 2004 à 01:41 +0100, Michael Banck a écrit :
> 
> > You could perhaps also just ship GNOME packages built with debugging
> > symbols during the development process (like God^WRMS intended) and then
> > rebuild the final packages for the release without them.
> 
> I've already thought about that, but debbuging packages are huge to
> download and devel branch change a lot ... not sure than people would be
> happy to get such big upgrade only for debugging purpose.
> 
> > Or have an autobuilt hoary-debug archive users can ping higher than
> > hoary. Again, just for GNOME packages.
> 
> That could be a good solution yes.

dbg packages in normal hoary would be great. If something is breaking, you
can just pull down the appropriate dpkg package and go. :-)

- Jeff

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