Re: unstripped stuff in /usr/lib

[Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de>]

On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Adrian Bridgett wrote:

> There is quite a lot of unstripped libraries/object files in /usr/lib, is
> this against policy?

Policy, section `3.3.2 Libraries' says that all shared libraries have to
be stripped (unless they are part of a debugging package).

I'm not sure if we should treat static libraries the same way, since some
people might need the symbols for debugging. Could someone comment on
that?


Thanks,

Chris

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