And we just need someone to put time into getting it implemented in devtools. I posted patches that need some work on the arch-projects list about half a year ago as a starting point...
]]>About every six months someone does come along who cares about the issue however for one reason or another it never gets completed by anyone.
-- 2015-07-16
+1 for additional repos with debug versions of the packages
I'd rather not have debug symbols embedded to the binaries by default. The argument that $RESOURCE (time, memory, storage, CPU, ...) is available in excess has lead to a great many software projects turning into bloatware these days.
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There's also been some talk about a debug repo.
Yeah, a debug repo would also be cool, although a bit more
complicated.
But what I'm interested in is why aren't debugging symbols just
left in the binaries more often. I mean, it's not like storage
is expensive enough to be a limiting factor these days.
I always thought that would be in accord with the principle of
simplicity, with not having to recompile every time you want to
know what a program is doing, or need to file a bug report. :)