Re: packages built without optimization

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 11:28:13AM +0200, Joey Schulze wrote:
> 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.

I gave pointers to the bug reports in my email (although one of them was 
in the upstream BTS).

Sorry if I was unclear:
The purpose of my email was not because of these two packages.
I found these two packages by chance, and I suspect that there might be 
other packages with the same issue.

> Regards,
> 
> 	Joey

cu
Adrian

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