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caf on June 3, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why is a Rust executable large?

Debian does use separate debug files, packaged in separate packages: https://wiki.debian.org/DebugPackage

ashitlerferad on June 3, 2016 [–]

...and now they are finally being automatically built:

https://wiki.debian.org/AutomaticDebugPackages

Ubuntu/Fedora has been doing this for years too.

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