On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 12:09:05PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sat, 12 Apr 2003 19:24:12 +0200, Matthias Urlichs <smurf@noris.de> said: > > > Section 11.2 says > > > strip --strip-unneeded your-lib > > > Lintian, however, complains if the sections .comment or .note are > > present, which strip doesn't think are unneeded. > > Usually, when there is a discrepancy between lintian and > policy, it is not policy that you change. > > > I don't know whether this is a bug in policy, strip, or lintian, but > > since Debian's "install -s" and dh_strip both use the additional > > options > > > > I think that it's a policy bug. > > Changing this without a transition plan would mean that a > number of packages would be rendered buggy (all my C packages, most > of whom rely on upstream Makefiles install target, and do not call > install directly). > > How many packages would be affected? Before any of that, come up with a good reason why --strip-unneeded doesn't remove them in the first place. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `' | Imperial College, `- -><- | London, UK
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