Re: packages built without optimization

[Joey Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>]

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Due to upstream bugs and/or packaging mistakes some Debian packages like
> Abiword [1] or Wireshark [2] are currently unintentionally built without
> any compiler optimization [3].
> 
> This results in programs being both significantely bigger and 
> significantely slower than they should be.
> 
> It would IMHO be good if maintainers would sometimes check whether their 
> packages are actually built with compiler optimization enabled.

I would assume that this warrants a bug report given that it's also
worth a bug report if the nostrip-Option is accidently not honored
in the packages' build system.

Regards,

	Joey

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