Re: consensus on debug (-g) policy

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

Ben Collins wrote:
> +         NOTE: Debhelper's ``dh_strip'' command will honor this policy, so that
> +         old packages that use it will automatically compile and keep the debug
> +         symbols when DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS contains ``debug'' (although they will
> +         still build with -g by default, and should be changed).

I wonder if this is really needed in policy. Note that this would be the
first mention of debhelper, debmake, yada, etc in policy. I think it's a
good idea to keep policy helper-tool independant and neutral. After all, if
we all stop using debhelper tomorrow, we don't want to have to change policy
to talk about the helper tool de jour.

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