[php-maint] Should we ship a php5-dbg package?

Steve Langasek vorlon at debian.org
Sun Mar 30 03:55:09 UTC 2008


On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 08:46:10PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> If you are so worried about /bloating/ the archive with a -dbg package
> why don't we just give a try in one upload and based on the popcon a
> decision is taken? that's IMHO the fairest way to check if providing a
> -dbg is useless or not.

No, that would only prove whether or not users install it.  There are lots
of useless things that people still install.

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