I would like to ask FESCo to review this Change proposal:

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.

• The Change proposal page
• Announcement on devel-announce@ list
• Discussion on devel@ list
• Change owner(s): @mjw , @ngompa