Bug#823896: vim-dbg package no longer built

[Niels Thykier]

fREW Schmidt:
> Oh thanks!
> 
> Sorry, I didn't realize that debug symbols are now hosted elsewhere.
> Do you know why that is?  Seems sketchy since they have to be the same
> version and whatnot...
> 

Hi,

Ubuntu has had ddebs.ubuntu.com for a while plus the infrastructure to
build dbg packages for package that did not have any.
  What changed is that Debian got a similar setup now, so Debian
maintainers are now dropping their manual -dbg packages.

Three of the key reasons for moving the (automatic) dbg packages in
Debian to a separate archive were:

 * We expected quite a lot of them and expected them to be quite large.
   - As such the burden on mirrors might suddenly "explode"

 * The mirror metadata would also increase significantly
   - There were regular complains about the metadata being too "heavy"
     already now

 * We expected that very few people (relative to all of users of Debian)
   would want dbgsym packages.

I presume Ubuntu made came to a similar conclusion back when they made
their ddeb solution.


As for the technical parts, the dbgsym packages are built along with the
regular packages (which is why they have the same version).  When they
are uploaded to Debian, the infrastructure separates the "original" debs
and the "dbgsym" packages into separate archives.

> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 06:30:25PM +0000, Niels Thykier wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Forgot to CC you own the mail below.
>>
>>
>> [...]

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