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Re: Patch to make texlive-new work



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.

Yes, and texlive-new does that by calling dh_strip in the binary
target.  This is the correct way to do it, because dh_strip will honor
"nostrip" in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)



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