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Bug#256900: Ocaml compiled programs cannot be stripped



On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 11:17:51AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 01:51:20PM +0200, Sylvain Le Gall wrote:
> > The solution we discussed was to find a test that can tell us what
> > binaries are "ocamlc -custom" executable. If we can find them, we can
> > warn packager that it should be rebuild without the deprecated option.
> > To detect these files we must have a very simple script, lets call it
> > "ocaml-custom-detect". The best option is that this script will be
> > written using "sh" or "perl" (maybe having an ocaml executable is
> > also be ok, we must see what is the easiest way). 
> 
> Rather than being a standalone script, it should obviously be a lintian
> test (which in turn suggests it should be written in Perl). lintian is
> exactly the place where this kind of tests should be put.
> 

I totally agree. I have commited a version of the script inside
dh-ocaml. Feel free to modify it.

However, it may be good to keep it as a shell script to be able to share
it with other distro. We could just wrap its invocation into a shell
script...

Regards
Sylvain Le Gall

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