Package: debhelper
Version: 12.1
Severity: important
Tags: sid buster
afaics this change was made in
debhelper (9.20150811) unstable; urgency=medium
* dh_strip: Always compress debug sections of debug symbols
in ddebs.
What was the reason for enabling this? The only savings I can see is some
on-disk space savings when doing the debugging. The packages itself are
compressed anyway. Otoh there are still tools outside which cannot handle
compressed debug sections, and Debian seems to be the only distro turning on
these compressions by default. Just stumbled about that when looking at a
binutils issue which fixes the alignment for compressed debug sections (PR
binutils/23919.
