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Re: DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=debug



On Fri, 2016-05-13 at 02:22 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> In 2010 CDBS grep support for DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=debug (see 
> https://bugs.debian.org/599218 ), but I now realize that the option is 
> not documented in Policy.
> 
> I wonder, if I should drop that from CDBS, or if not if we should put it 
> in Policy?

Drop it.

> I am aware that debug symbols (e.g. CFLAGS=-g) is set by default, and 
> stripped after build for normal packages except when 
> DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt is set.
[...]

The option is 'nostrip'.  It also seems redundant now, given that the
default is to distribute debug symbols separately rather than to strip
them entirely.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Horngren's Observation:
                   Among economists, the real world is often a special case.

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