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Re: Bug#603580: geneweb: armel: stripped binaries are broken



severity 603580 serious
thanks

Quoting Stéphane Glondu (glondu@debian.org):
> Le 10/01/2011 18:52, Christian PERRIER a écrit :
> > To Ocaml specialists : besides your advice on the above, is it, in
> > your opinion, normal that dh_strip makes bytecode executable useless?
> 
> It depends on what you mean by "normal". It is a known behaviour, and my
> personal feeling is that it is not normal. But upstream disagrees and
> recommends that bytecode executables should not be built with the
> -custom option instead, which is what we adopted as a policy in the
> Debian OCaml team. However, it is not trivial to build a bytecode
> executable without -custom when it contains C parts (I don't know about
> geneweb specifically). See #256900.

So, in short, this bug is RC as geneweb doesn't work on all arches
with no native compiler. I should indeed have raised this severity
earlier.

I'm currently building packages with Hans-Jakob patch.


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