On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 11:44:12PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > It just the same thing about binary-has-unneeded-section. Strangely, I > don't remember it giving this particular error a few weeks ago when I > started working on the package.
It's an info-level message, so you (should) only get it with lintian -I. Both dh_strip and install -s will strip those two sections, because we decided (long ago) that they're a waste of space. Stripping them is not required, though, it's just a good thing to do if it's not too much trouble. That's why it's an info message instead of a warning. I tend to use install -s. With some packages I use strip --remove-section=.note --remove-section=.comment and with some packages, where I use the upstream makefile to install, I just leave them in. It's about 1% of the binary size, IIRC. Richard Braakman
