A install of gdb in a minimal enviorment currently pulls in about 23,8MB
of packages.

I'm building a minimal embeded system and would like to be able to do
simple core dump analysis in it, eg. via systemd-coredump.

I was hoping you'd re-consider the existance of gdb-minimal, which would
have been a perfect fit for our enviorment.

Just a minimal gdb, with minimal dependencies.


//Anton

Thanks for the interest in the package.

The main reason I decided to remove the package is to reduce the
maintenance burden.  I think the main and only(?) niche for a
gdb-minimal package is exactly your case: minimal embedded systems.
Arguably, it's not a very common scenario in my experience.

Let me think more about this, but offhand I can say that I'm not too
keen on reintroducing the package (especially considering that saving
23,8MB doesn't seem like a major thing TBH).

Thanks,

No worries. Just stating my case. Our system images are about 300Mb
compressed so 24Mb binaries isn't huge, but it's not a insigificant part
either.

You're the maintainer, so it's your call.

If you decide to not build a gdb-minimal, we'll probably just end up
building our own from the same source tree to include.


//Anton