RE: Lintian errors and warnings
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On 20-Apr-2001 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.
Call strip with '--strip-unneeded' in your debian/rules to strip these sections
out of the binaries when building the package. (btw, consider running lintian
in verbose mode (with -v), it would have explained you that.)
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