Re: Patch to make texlive-new work

[Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr>]

Hi,

Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:

> I've absolutely no clue, waht "make strip" does in TL, but Debian
> Policy 10.1. says:
>
>      Note that by default all installed binaries should be stripped,
>      either by using the `-s' flag to `install', or by calling
>      `strip' on the binaries after they have been copied into
>      `debian/tmp' but before the tree is made into a package.

Note the "by default". A few lines later, it says that if
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS contains the string nostrip, then the binaries should
*not* be stripped.

As Frank said, all this is very conveniently implemented using dh_strip
(the general case as well as the special case).

-- 
Florent