Comment 6 for bug 14484

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James Henstridge (jamesh) wrote :

Have been talking with Seb, and we realised that the Fedora *-debuginfo packages
generally seem to be a fraction of the size of the corresponding ubuntu *-dbg
package. For instance, comparing the libgnomeui packages:

             Version Package Size Installed Size
  Fedora: 2.10.0-1 838059 2810k
  Ubuntu: 2.10.0-0ubuntu1 3889082 9104k

The fedora debuginfo package also includes the source code files referenced by
the debugging symbols.

It would be good to work out why the Fedora debug info is so much smaller, since
it might make a full debugging symbol repository more feasible.