Bug#188731: debian-policy: "strip --strip-unneeded" is insufficient

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#188731: debian-policy: "strip --strip-unneeded" is insufficient"):
> Indeed, but the shading will get a lot less useful if it merely
> indicates that there is /some/ common tool that implements the
> requirement.  We probably want to restrict the shading to dh-style
> debhelper.

I agree.  This would be really good.

But, a problem: what about the compat version ?  Some things may be
done only at certain compat levels.

I wouldn't like to see something done to policy which pushes people to
only use the latest released compat level.   So either the policy
shading (or whatever) needs to lag very substantially, or we need at
least two kinds of shading.

Ian.

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