Re: Lintian errors and warnings
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 05:00:31PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote:
> I am preparing a new release of dictd. Lintian gives the
> following warnings:
>
> W: dictd: binary-has-unneeded-section ./usr/bin/dictzip .note
> W: dictd: binary-has-unneeded-section ./usr/bin/dictzip .comment
> W: dictd: binary-has-unneeded-section ./usr/sbin/dictd .note
> W: dictd: binary-has-unneeded-section ./usr/sbin/dictd .comment
> W: dict: binary-has-unneeded-section ./usr/bin/dict .note
> W: dict: binary-has-unneeded-section ./usr/bin/dict .comment
>
> Is this a known bug in lintian? I have run strings(1) on these
> binaries, and have searched the source code for each, and neither
> .note or .comment appears in any of them.
Hmm, did you run strip --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note on
the binaries?
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