Strip debug symbols from release artifacts

[Cellcote]

Summary

The Windows release zip in v0.0.4 was ~60 MB versus ~33 MB for the other platforms. Investigation showed it ships ~180 MB of PDB debug symbols (SkiaSharp 84 MB, Conclave.App 77 MB, HarfBuzzSharp 21 MB) bundled into the user-facing artifact. PDBs aren't consulted at runtime — they're only used by debuggers / crash symbolicators — so they shouldn't be in the main download.

Linux's Conclave.App.dbg (54 MB) and macOS's Conclave.App.dSYM (56 MB) had the same problem, masked by better compression in tar.gz / UDZO than Compress-Archive gives PDBs.

Changes

release.yml now splits debug symbols into a separate Release asset per platform:

• Windows: Conclave-{ver}-win-x64-symbols.zip (all *.pdb)
• macOS: Conclave-{ver}-osx-{arch}-symbols.zip (the dSYM, pulled out of the .app per Apple convention)
• Linux: Conclave-{ver}-linux-x64-symbols.tar.gz (the Conclave.App.dbg)

Symbols stay archived per-version on the Release so we can still symbolicate crashes after the fact (e.g. if/when we wire up Sentry); they just don't bloat the user download.

Expected impact

• Windows zip: ~60 MB → ~15-20 MB
• Linux tar.gz / AppImage: ~33 MB → ~13 MB
• macOS DMG: ~32 MB → ~25 MB

Verified against the actual v0.0.4 artifacts to confirm what each archive contains; the strip points are the only large-debug-info files in each publish output.

[greptile-apps]

Greptile Summary

This PR strips debug symbols out of user-facing release artifacts across all three platforms — Windows PDBs, macOS dSYM, and Linux .dbg — and reattaches them as separate -symbols archives on the same GitHub Release. The ARTIFACT glob patterns are updated to pick up both the main and symbols archives in the upload steps.

The previously flagged Windows PDB guard issue is fully resolved: Get-Item … -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue + if ($pdbs) matches the Linux/macOS if-guard pattern exactly.

Confidence Score: 5/5

Safe to merge — logic is correct across all platforms and the only remaining finding is a P2 style concern about macOS dSYM path structure in the symbols zip.

All three platforms correctly guard symbol extraction, update globs, and remove symbols from the user artifact before packaging. The prior P1 (Windows missing guard) is addressed. The sole remaining finding is a P2: the macOS symbols zip nests the dSYM under the full bundle path due to --keepParent, which would inconvenience future crash symbolication but does not break the current release workflow.

No files require special attention.

Important Files Changed

Filename	Overview
.github/workflows/release.yml	Splits debug symbols into per-platform -symbols archives; Windows/Linux/macOS all correctly guarded; glob patterns updated to capture both main and symbols artifacts. Minor: macOS dSYM is archived with a deep nested path via --keepParent.

Flowchart

%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart TD
    A[dotnet publish NativeAOT] --> B{Platform}

    B -->|Windows zip| C[Get publish/*.pdb]
    C -->|PDBs found| D[Move PDBs → _symbols/]
    D --> E[Compress _symbols/ → *-symbols.zip]
    E --> F[Compress publish/* → *.zip]
    C -->|No PDBs| F

    B -->|macOS dmg| G[build-mac-app.sh]
    G --> H{dSYM exists?}
    H -->|yes| I[ditto dSYM → *-symbols.zip]
    I --> J[rm dSYM from .app bundle]
    J --> K[hdiutil create *.dmg]
    H -->|no| K

    B -->|Linux| L{Conclave.App.dbg exists?}
    L -->|yes| M[tar Conclave.App.dbg → *-symbols.tar.gz]
    M --> N[rm .dbg from publish/]
    N --> O[tar publish/ → *.tar.gz]
    L -->|no| O
    O --> P[appimagetool → *.AppImage]

    F --> Q[upload-artifact glob: *-rid*.zip]
    K --> R[upload-artifact glob: *-rid*]
    P --> S[upload-artifact glob: *-rid*]

    Q & R & S --> T[release job: attach all to GitHub Release]

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