Bug#662998: debian-policy: stripping static libraries

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

Package: debian-policy
Severity: wishlist

As far as I can tell, the Policy currently doesn't require stripping 
static libraries[0]. The de facto standard is to strip them with 
--strip-debug, because this what dh_strip does[1].

Can we make stripping static libraries a Policy “should”?


[0] The only reference I could find was footnote to §10.2: “You might 
also want to use […] ‘--strip-debug’ on static libraries.” This is a bit 
odd though, because the footnote applies to a paragraph which talks only 
about stripping shared libraries.

[1] More specifically, dh_strip calls “strip --with-debug” on all files 
matching “lib*.a”, except those ending with “_g.a”.

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Jakub Wilk