Re: lintian, strip --strip-unneeded, section, and priority
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Dale Scheetz wrote:
>
> > I'm working on Lars' lodju package and get some warnings from lintian that
> > I don't understand.
> >...
> > 1. Does --strip-unneeded not work correctly? I realize that I can remove
> > these sections with the -R option, I'm just curious why strip and lintian
> > don't agree about what sections are unneeded.
>
> These sections aren't needed and footnote 1 in section 11.2. of our policy
> states that you might remove them in shared libraries and the same is
> true for executables and static libraries..
I certainly understand that. My question was: Why doesn't 'strip
--strip-unneeded' actually do what is requested?
The '-R .note -R .comment' options work just fine, I just don't know why I
need to do that. It seems redundant. "Please remove all unneeded symbols,
and by the way remove .note and .comment unneeded symbols as well."
Shouldn't --strip-unneeded do the right thing?
Luck,
Dwarf
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