Hello Matthias, On Wed 20 Feb 2019 at 09:34AM +01, Matthias Klose wrote:
> 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. Could you substantiate the concern about tooling issues, please? On the other side of this dispute, in #631985, there is a concrete example of how someone's life is made easier by having the compression turned on, but on the other side things are less substantiated. Thanks. -- Sean Whitton
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