Re: [PATCH 1/2] deb-pkg: split debug symbols in their own package

From: Michal Marek
Date: Fri May 03 2013 - 11:19:43 EST


On 3.5.2013 17:08, Anisse Astier wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:05:19 +0200, Anisse Astier <anisse@xxxxxxxxx> wrote :
>
>> On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 12:05:47 +0200, Anisse Astier <anisse@xxxxxxxxx> wrote :
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Anisse Astier <anisse@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> Subject: [PATCH v3] deb-pkg: split debug symbols in their own package
>>>
>>> This can reduce almost 3 times the size of the linux-image package,
>>> while keeping the debug symbols available for this particular build, in
>>> their own package.
>>>
>>> This mimics the way kernels are built in debian, ubuntu, or with
>>> make-kpkg, and comes at the price of a small slowdown in the building of
>>> packages.
>>>
>>> v2:
>>> - only build when CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y
>>> - build debug package last.
>>> - more verbose package description
>>> - put package in section debug
>>> v3:
>>> - remove duplicate code from v2
>>>
>>
>> What do you think ?
>
> Any update ?

I don't know much about debian (kernel) packaging, so I'd like to hear
Max's opinion before merging this.

Michal
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