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Re: Lintian checks



On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 08:52:27AM +0000, Sylvain Le Gall wrote:
> We can have objects compiled with -p/-g but they must be advertised as
> such. E.g. I like the .d.cm[oa] and .p.cmx/cmxa extensions. At least
> you know that you are dealing with debug/profiling objects.

Debugging and profiling are different and I think they deserve different
defaults.

> If toto.cma has been compiled with -g, this is at least a warning (I
> would even say it is an error).

May I remind you that our current policy recommends ("should") compiling
all objects with debugging enabled? Chapter 3, on line version at
http://pkg-ocaml-maint.alioth.debian.org/ocaml_packaging_policy.html/c305.html

Cheers.

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