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Bug#188731: debian-policy: "strip --strip-unneeded" is insufficient



On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 07:24:12PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> Section 11.2 says 
> 
> 	strip --strip-unneeded your-lib
This is still true (the section is 10.2 though).

> Lintian, however, complains if the sections .comment or .note are
> present, which strip doesn't think are unneeded.
This is still true, the tag is binary-has-unneeded-section.
Emitted (non-overridden): 537, overridden: 71, total: 608

> 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.
This is still true for dh_strip but not for install -s (since 2005,
coreutils 5.93-1).

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