On 5.8.2018 03:20, Sérgio Basto wrote:
On Sat, 2018-08-04 at 22:25 +0200, Miro Hrončok wrote:
> Hi,
>
> an interesting discussion came up in the Python Maint team recently,
> about not shipping python3-debug and python2-debug.
>
> On the Chesterton's fence principle [0], I'd would like to know why
> are
> we building and shipping them before we have a discussion about
> their
> removal to save build time and remove packaging cruft.
>
> Anyone has an idea? Those packages are meant to debug Python, yet
> all
> people I know who do that, build they own Python for that purpose
> (often
> from the master branch).
I think I used debug builds for this feature :
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/EasierPythonDebugging
https://wiki.python.org/moin/DebuggingWithGdb
None of it mentions the debug build.
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