Re: lintian: binary-has-unneeded-section

[Drew Parsons <dparsons@emerall.com>]

On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 05:57:22AM -0600, Richard Braakman wrote:
> 
> Both dh_strip and install -s will strip those two sections, because
> we decided (long ago) that they're a waste of space.  Stripping
> them is not required, though, it's just a good thing to do if it's
> not too much trouble.  That's why it's an info message instead of
> a warning.
> 


I can't win.  I replaced the lines

  strip --strip-debug *.a
  strip --strip-unneeded *.so

with

    dh_strip

and now lintian whinges about

E: meschach: unstripped-binary-or-object ./usr/lib/libmeschach.so.1.2

What does dh_strip work on exactly?  The man page doesn't seem to specify
how it locates the library files it's stripping.

Drew

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