On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 01:10:51AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > > 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 can't win. I replaced the lines > > strip --strip-debug *.a > strip --strip-unneeded *.so > > with > > dh_strip > > and now lintian whinges about > > E: meschach: unstripped-binary-or-object ./usr/lib/libmeschach.so.1.2 > > What does dh_strip work on exactly? The man page doesn't seem to specify > how it locates the library files it's stripping.
It checks debian/<tmp|secondbinarypackage|thirdbinarypackage|...>/usr/lib/* or so, and debian/firstbinarypackage instead of debian/tmp in case you use DH_COMPAT=2. FWIW it works for me[TM] :o) -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
