On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 10:33:38PM +0100, Matej Kosik wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am trying to create a Debian package for the Pict programming language. > > http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/papers/pict/Html/Pict.html > > The package itself is here > http://altair.dcs.elf.stuba.sk/~kosik/debian/pool/main/p/pict/pict_4.1.0-1.dsc > > I have successfully built it within pbuilder environment. However, I > have observed a weird behavior of the binary when I let dh_strip it. > > The binary is installed into > /usr/lib/pict/pict > > (the /usr/bin/pict is only a script that calls the binary with pre-set > environment variables required by the original software) > > The original and the dh_stripped versions of the binary differ > - the original does recognize the `--help' option, > the dh_stripped does not recognize it > - when I run the original binary without any parameters, it complains > "You must specify exactly one input file" > whereas the dh_stripped bersion prints something else. > - and other things > > <SPECULATION> > Major part of the orignal binary is compiled from OCAML sources so maybe > there is some specific error behavior of dh_strip related to these kind > of binaries. > </SPECULATION> You speculated correctly:
#256900: ocaml: Ocaml compiled programs cannot be stripped, hence either don't work or violate policy Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
