Re: lintian: binary-has-unneeded-section
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 11:44:12PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote:
> It just the same thing about binary-has-unneeded-section. Strangely, I
> don't remember it giving this particular error a few weeks ago when I
> started working on the package.
It's an info-level message, so you (should) only get it with lintian -I.
Both dh_strip and install -s will strip those two sections, because
we decided (long ago) that they're a waste of space. Stripping
them is not required, though, it's just a good thing to do if it's
not too much trouble. That's why it's an info message instead of
a warning.
I tend to use install -s. With some packages I use
strip --remove-section=.note --remove-section=.comment
and with some packages, where I use the upstream makefile to install,
I just leave them in. It's about 1% of the binary size, IIRC.
Richard Braakman
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