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

[Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>]

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 01:39:43PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> 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).

So to summary:
Policy 11.2 recommends:
  strip --strip-unneeded
dh_strip does:
  strip --strip-unneeded --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note
install -s does currently:
  strip --strip-unneeded
lintian checks for:
  strip --strip-unneeded --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note

is that correct ?

Did 'install -s' used to do 
'strip --strip-unneeded --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note' ?
Do we know why it was changed ?

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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