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

[Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>]

On 3.5.2013 17:08, Anisse Astier wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:05:19 +0200, Anisse Astier <anisse@astier.eu> wrote :
> 
>> On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 12:05:47 +0200, Anisse Astier <anisse@astier.eu> wrote :
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Anisse Astier <anisse@astier.eu>
>>> 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