Bug#297244: libgtk2.0-dev: new version 2.6.2-3 contains static libs with debug info

[Fabien COUTANT]

Package: libgtk2.0-dev
Version: 2.4.14-2
Severity: normal


When I examined upgrading Gtk+ to 2.6.x yesterday, I got stopped by seeing
it required 30MB more than the previous (2.4.x) version.
After investigating I tracked this down to the libgtk2.0-dev package, which
contains huge lib*.a files, far bigger than their equivalents in the 2.4
version.  Those files must have been built with debug information, because
I don't think Gtk has grown so much between 2.4 and 2.6 series.
Debug libraries should go to libgtk2.0-dbg, not -dev.  -dev should contain
static libraries, but without debug info so they keep a reasonable size.

Faulty version (since I didn't upgrade the report doesn't show useful
info):  2.6.2-3

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-1-k7-smp
Locale: LANG=fr_FR@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages libgtk2.0-dev depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-dev            1.8.0-4         Development files for the ATK acce
ii  libglib2.0-dev           2.6.2-1         Development files for the GLib lib
ii  libgtk2.0-0              2.4.14-2        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpango1.0-dev          1.8.0-3         Development files for the Pango
ii  libx11-dev               4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext-dev              4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  pkg-config               0.15.0-4        Manage compile and link flags for 
ii  xlibs-dev                4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System client library dev

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