Bug#939656: dh_strip should strip sections with LTO information from .a and .o files / lintian should warn about these

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

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Matthias Klose:
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> On 29.09.19 11:03, Niels Thykier wrote:
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>> When would you need to keep these LTO sections (but not use -k to keep
>> everything)?
> 
> -k is aliased as --keep-debug, this has nothing to do with LTO
> sections.  Why do you want to blow up the size of a package needing LTO
> when only LTO is needed?
> 
> Keeping LTO information in a package can be useful when you have tightly
> coupled packages where you know that LTO optimization can be done across
> package boundaries.
> 
> Matthias

Can you name me some concrete examples of packages / relations where
keeping LTO information would be beneficial, useful and worth the extra
complexity/cognitive load of "yet-another-toggle-in-debhelper" that
everyone needs to consider whether applies to them?

Thanks,
~Niels