X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,TW_YG X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <50087845.1000007@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:12:37 -0500 From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cygport debug junk References: <50073394 DOT 8040901 AT cornell DOT edu> <50073E51 DOT 1090709 AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On 2012-07-19 12:29, Andrew Schulman wrote: >> Debuginfo is not "junk". Like most Linux binary distros, these files >> are automatically packed into a ${PN}-debuginfo package and excluded >> from other (sub)packages without further intervention by the maintainer. >> Users can then install gdb and these debuginfo packages to debug >> software in place, without having to install BRs and rebuild packages. > > One disadvantage of this is that it makes the 'list' command less useful. I > used to be able to copy the output of 'cygport list' and paste it directly into > the README.Cygwin file, which is supposed to include a file listing of the > binary package. Now I have to edit the output to remove the debug files. > > If the intent of 'list' is to show the contents of the binary package, then I > suggest that it automatically remove the debug files from the listing. Good point; fixed in git master. Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple