#1147241 Architecture-specific gcc-16 packages are much larger than gcc-15 equivalents

Package:
gcc-16
Source:
gcc-16
Description:
GNU C compiler
Submitter:
Piotr Jurkiewicz
Date:
2026-09-09 22:55:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1147241#5
Date:
2026-09-09 22:53:50 UTC
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The architecture-specific GCC 16 packages are substantially larger than
the corresponding GCC 15 packages. These figures were displayed by
aptitude while upgrading from GCC 15 to GCC 16. I suspect that it might
be a packaging bug (for example debugging symbols were included in all
GCC binary packages, etc.).