Re: lintian, strip --strip-unneeded, section, and priority
Oh, and I'll also see if I can improve lintian's test while I'm at it.
FYI, this is low on my priority list, but I'll try to squeeze it in as
soon as I can.
C
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote:
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> On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Dale Scheetz wrote:
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> > > Not sure why strip doesn't remove these ...
> >
> > Me either. Is it a bug?
>
> Nope. --strip-unneeded just removes SYMBOLS that aren't needed for
> relocation processing, not sections. I'll quote the docs:
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> `--strip-unneeded'
> Remove all symbols that are not needed for relocation processing.
>
> If you want to remove sections like .note and .comment, then you'll have
> to explicitely do so with -R.
>
> Off-list update: I just wrote back to Dale about this off-list and figured
> that it may be time for me to improve dh_strip a bit to have it detect
> whether or not it can safely remove .comment and/or .note before blindly
> doing so. In some cases (Xserver modules on alpha, for example), to
> remove .comment and .note will break things, but while I don't want those
> bits to be stripped, I don't see the point of the rest of the binaries in
> the package that don't have a problem being stripped remaining unstripped.
> I'm not sure I can catch the X situation into some kind of test, but I'll
> certainly try. The end result should be a more intelligent
> dh_strip.
>
> I'll also try to come up with something for non-debhelper packages to
> include that accomplishes the same thing.
>
> C
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