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Bug#256900: marked as done (ocaml: Ocaml compiled programs cannot be stripped, hence either don't work or violate policy)

Your message dated Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:15:50 +0200
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has caused the Debian Bug report #256900,
regarding ocaml: Ocaml compiled programs cannot be stripped, hence either don't work or violate policy
to be marked as done.

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Package: ocaml
Severity: important

As also partly discussed in #69724, ocaml-compiled binaries cannot be
stripped without becoming useless.

I don't know how exactly this comes, but IMHO, stripping a binary should
not render it useless, so I guess OCaml is wrongly using some optional,
discardable section, like those intended for debugging information, to
store essential data. Some ELF format wizard would probably be better at
explaining this / nailing this down.

--Jeroen

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.3
Locale: LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8@euro, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL.UTF-8@euro

-- 
Jeroen van Wolffelaar
jeroen@wolffelaar.nl
http://jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

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--- Begin Message --- 
I think everything has been said on this topic now, therefore I'm
closing this bug.

-- 
Stéphane

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