Bug#188731: debian-policy: "strip --strip-unneeded" is insufficient
severity 188731 wishlist
thanks
Hi,
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
> --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note
> 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?
manoj
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