Hi, I have created a Lintian branch for detecting insufficient stripping of static libs[1]. On a related note, dh_strip seems to do "the right thing(tm)" so any package using debhelper (correctly) should already strip static libs. Though I did not check if it can do detacted symbols... ~Niels [1] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/nthykier/lintian.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/strip-static-lib