Comment 4 for bug 14484

(In reply to comment #3)
> I just looked at the dh_strip program (this seems to be the one in question),
> and it only does part of what the RPM "debugedit" program does.
>
> The Fedora debuginfo packages include the sources referenced by the debug
> information that aren't usually installed (it puts them in
> /usr/src/debug/$SORUCEPACKAGENAME-$VERSION), and also edits the paths in the
> debug info so that they can find this source.

That's interesting; is there a particular value in repackaging the source,
rather than using the source package for debugging?

> Lastly, since it is done automatically it is available for every relevant
> package rather than just the ones that have turned on the feature.

The reason that we don't do this automatically is not because we can't; it's
because it would double the number of packages in the archive, consume a huge
amount of disk space and mirror bandwidth, etc.