Re: should static archives be stripped?

[Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>]

* Nicolas Boulenguez:

> One day in the near future, all -dbg packages should be generated
> automatically after upload [2]. The Ada policy may then forget
> everything about -dbg packages.
>
> For now, we distribute an unstripped static archive with each Ada
> library.  A new lintian tag [1] seems to show that we should start
> stripping this archive.  This can easily be implemented for most
> packages by changing only dh-ada-library.  Should I do that?

I would be a bit surprised if you could use debuginfo separated from
static libraries to debug statically linked binaries.  Is this really
the case?

Florian