For the FESCo team to discuss/approve on the next FESco meeting:
Allow to install just the debuginfo for a subpackage and/or without the source files. The debuginfo packages are huge because they contain debuginfo and all sources for all subpackages. Being able to install only the debuginfo for the subpackage that is installed reduces the size that needs to be downloaded to analyze, trace, profile or debug a program or core file. Some tracing and profiling tools don't need the actual source files to provide stack traces or insert probes. So installing the debugsources should be optional.
I'm +1 for this change, but have a question as whether this can be done for F26 (after the mass rebuild?) or would be better pushed to F27.
* FESCo defers a decision on this Change this week due to deadlock (sgallagh, 17:40:04)
See full details at https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2017-02-03/fesco.2017-02-03-16.00.log.html
Adding Change owners on CC of this ticket: @mjw , @ngompa
Separate subpackage and source debuginfo is approved with the caveat that by default debuginfo subpackages "Recommends" the source package. (7,0,0)
@jforbes changed the status to Closed
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