Re: Bug#69724: ocaml: binaries not stripped

[Sven LUTHER <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 06:48:32PM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> Package: ocaml
> Version: 3.00-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The following files appear to be unstripped ELF binaries.
> 
> /usr/bin/ocamlbrowser
> /usr/bin/ocamlc.opt
> /usr/bin/ocamldebug
> /usr/bin/ocamlopt.opt
> /usr/bin/ocamlrun
> /usr/bin/ocamlyacc
> 
> I though that the Debian policy was to strip all the binaries unless
> they serve debugging purpose, that's why I'm posting this as a bug.

Well, yes, the debian policy is to strip binaries, but stripping ocaml
bytecode binaries would remove the bytecode to be executed, which is not
really the right thing to do.

Thus the debian policy for doing ocaml related package (as defined by me as
the ocaml maintainer, maybe i should send some info to the debian-policy folk
?) is not to strip ocaml programs.

But then maybe i should fill a bug report against strip ?

I will wait for your response before closing the bug report.

Friendly,

Sven LUTHER