Control: tags -1 moreinfo Matthias Klose: > Package: debhelper,lintian > Severity: important > > Some packages build with link time optimizations enabled, which is ok, > whoever then these packages may ship with static libs which still have > the LTO information in some sections of the object files (e.g. > ext2fsprogs). This is not desired in most cases, so this information > should be removed from these files, and not shipped in the archive. Plus > the streaming format for the LTO information changes (even in GCC minor > releases), and leads to build errors when you try to use an old > streaming format with a newer compiler. I'm asking for > > - dh_strip removing sections, as in > > strip -R .gnu.lto_* -R .gnu.debuglto_* -N __gnu_lto_slim -N > __gnu_lto_v1 > > which is turned on by default. > > - dh_strip providing an option not to remove these sections. > > - lintian warning about object files and static archives having such > sections. > > I'd like to see that implemented in debhelper, because LTO builds are > also sometimes enabled in upstream sources. > > LTO is turned on by default in Suse, and their dh_strip equivalent > provides the functionality above for the removal of the LTO information. > > Please feel free to split this issue into separate debhelper and lintian > tasks once a solution is agree upon. >
When would you need to keep these LTO sections (but not use -k to keep everything)? Thanks, ~Niels
