[debhelper-devel] Bug#868674: dh_builddeb has bad compressor settings for -dbgsym

Adrian Bunk bunk at debian.org
Mon Jul 17 14:39:28 UTC 2017


Package: debhelper
Version: 10.6.4
Severity: normal

Using "xz -1 --extreme" for udebs does make sense.

Or at least it did at some point, the 9 MiB memory
required for decompression with the default -6 is
likely no longer a problem today.


But the same settings copied for -dbgsym do not make sense:

Memory required for decompression is not an issue for -dbgsym.

"xz -1 --extreme" is expected to have comparable (or even slightly
worse) compression than the default "xz -6" while taking more
compression time.

Since the benefits of higher compression are smaller packages
and shorter (sic) decompression time, using better compression
than what is used for normal packages would not make sense.

-dbgsym using the same compression as normal packages would
therefore be a good choice.




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