Bug#72849: policy: advises to use -s flag to install in wrong place

[Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>]

Yann Dirson wrote:
> > Actually, dh_strip does more than install -s:
> > 
> >     foreach (@executables) {
> >         doit("strip","--remove-section=.comment","--remove-section=.note",$_);
> >     }
> 
> IIRC Debian's "strip" was once patched to use these flags by default.
> Don't know whether this is still true, however.

joey@kite:~>echo 'main(){}' > foo.c
joey@kite:~>make foo
cc     foo.c   -o foo
joey@kite:~>strip foo
joey@kite:~>ls -l foo
-rwxrwxr-x    1 joey     joey         2920 Oct  3 14:53 foo*
joey@kite:~>rm foo
joey@kite:~>make foo
cc     foo.c   -o foo
joey@kite:~>strip --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note foo
joey@kite:~>ls -l foo                                                 
-rwxrwxr-x    1 joey     joey         2424 Oct  3 14:53 foo*

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