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rebuild some xenial packages for trusty

Asked by Csaba Keszegh

Hello,

I'm working with embedded systems that have modified version of Ubuntu 14.04 (e.g: Jetson TK1). I'd like to use recent compiler (clang-3.8) and cmake 3.3+, on aarch64, and armhf systems. I thought the most convenient way to install them, is to grab the latest source from 16.04, and rebuild them using Launchpad. Now I'm running out of space in my ppa:csaba-keszegh/aw because the huge *-dbg packages (which I don't really need anyway).

1. Is it okay to use launchpad for creating "backports"?
2. Is it possible to rebuild the source without creating the -dbg packages? I guess I should edit some files in the debian folder of the source pkg.
3. Could you please increase my quota for for ppa:csaba-keszegh/aw? I think 8GB should be enough.

Thanks.

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Best Colin Watson (cjwatson) said : 		#1

1. Sure.
2. Yes, this will involve editing the source package. You'll need to remove the stanzas for the *-dbg packages from debian/control, and probably also remove the various dh_strip --dbg-package=... commands from debian/rules (but not the dh_strip -a command!).
3. Done.

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Csaba Keszegh (csaba-keszegh) said : 		#2

Thanks for the quick response.

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Csaba Keszegh (csaba-keszegh) said : 		#3

Thanks Colin Watson, that solved my question.