Default makepkg.conf options changed with pacman 6.0.2-9, so now every package built from AUR also builds and installs its debugging symbols

To find your already installed debug packages:

pacman -Q | grep -e '-debug '

This debug packages usually huge, I noticed this accidentally, and I haven't found a news about this on archlinux.org

To solve this add a ! before debug on line 97 in /etc/makepkg.conf

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But strip is still enabled on new makepkg.conf, so all debug symbols get removed when packaging. Actually I don't get it why stripping debug symbols while also generating them first. So are those two actually compatible?
- I don't know, in the old version strip was enbled and it worked, check the commit in the MR
  
  How to stop their generation?
  
  strip has need enabled since I can remember, so yes it was enabled. The change was from this:
  
  OPTIONS=(strip docs !libtool !staticlibs emptydirs zipman purge !debug !lto)
  
  To this:
  
  OPTIONS=(strip docs !libtool !staticlibs emptydirs zipman purge debug lto)
  
  Actually enabling debug and lto, but keeping strip. So unless I'm missing something, what it adds on one side, it removes it on the other, :)
  
  You can confirmed with the specif change on the referenced MR.
@infeeeee@lemm.ee, I think I got now why by default the keep strip and debug together. stripseems to be removing them only from the non -debug package generated, and not doing so on the -debug package generated. So they actually make sense together.

That said, you were right. If not interested on the -debug packages getting generated, just use !debug.

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Thanks a lot!

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