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Comment 8 for bug 633667

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In , Jeff (jeff-redhat-bugs) wrote :

Nope. I don't use OpenSUSE and I believe (based on my own experiences)
that per-subpackage -debuginfo is A Very Bad Idea.

Bounded by the total number of packages containing binaries
is entirely irrelevant.

Its very clear that per-package -debuginfo will
    1) result in duplication of source and symbols (verified Yet Again today
    that there are still significant amounts of duplication in DWARF symbols)
    2) significantly increase the number of packages that need to be managed
    and signed and downloaded and ...

There are no clearly stated benefits that I have read today either.

Note that -debuginfo "automation" is a serious amount of work.
Don't believe me, go ask anyone who has had to do any of the work
producing -debuginfo packages.

Clearly you haven't gotten your hands dirty or you would understand
better why per-package -debuginfo is non-trivial.

Go try and see. The whole mechanism to produce -debuginfo is poorly
designed, insanely complicated and too fragile.