[oe] [RFC] -dbg for static libraries?

[Koen Kooi]

On 17-09-09 07:40, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> As target binaries and libraries are now built with extra debugging symbols,
> some of the -dbg packages are very large. Unfortunately, -dbg packages only
> contain debug versions of executable binaries and shared libraries, but not
> static libraries, which go directly into -dev packages. That increases the
> size of sdk/toolchain tarballs, which include -dev packages, depending on the
> main packages, and end up with stripped shared libs, but bloated static libs.
>
> I understand, that -dev packages are specifically for development and having
> full debugging symbols in a library might be helpful for that, but -dev
> packages don't usually depend on -dbg, and most toolchain-target tasks don't
> include them either, hence not providing debugging versions of shared libs in
> the sdk/toolchain.
>
> Would it make sense to package stripped version of a static lib into -dev and
> the full version into corresponding -dbg?

What about the stripped version in -dev and the corresponding symbols in 
-dbg?

regards,

Koen