Comment 39 for bug 191575

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Mikael Gerdin (mgerdin) wrote : Re: [Bug 191575] Re: wine segfaults on winecfg

On Thursday 21 February 2008 13:17:40 rasta_freak wrote:
> One more question: why is hardy package for wine distributed in
> unstripped form? Did they hope it will work that way or they didn't
> build it properly? Difference is ~10 vs ~35 MB in download, and ~50 vs
> ~100 MB when installed (unpacked). That's a huge diff - 50 MB for
> nothing (except debugging).

The wine package size is related to bug #185513 and seems to be because the
debug-symbol generation, which is implemented as a wrapper around dh_strip
fails to run on the wine-package, this failure is ignored to make wine build
at all and wine is distributed in unstripped form.