Re: debug packages: let strip do the stripping

2019-11-25 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 04:11:53PM +0200, Paul Irofti wrote: > Hi, > > Few people complained (hi landry@!) that stripped binaries are slightly > larger now than they used to be when debug packages are enabled. > > My investigations show that this is because objcopy --strip-debug is > less

debug packages: let strip do the stripping

2019-11-25 Thread Paul Irofti
Hi, Few people complained (hi landry@!) that stripped binaries are slightly larger now than they used to be when debug packages are enabled. My investigations show that this is because objcopy --strip-debug is less efficient than plain strip(1) which is what we use for non-debug packages.