On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 02:41:32PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Should we add this to the policy document ?
I've added a couple of lines about this to policy/chapter-progpack.xml (and also removed the mention of lintian overrides, since it now handles the case of ocaml bytecode executables). The patch is attached, or I can commit it myself. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u
Index: chapter-progpack.xml =================================================================== --- chapter-progpack.xml (revision 5413) +++ chapter-progpack.xml (working copy) @@ -75,10 +75,18 @@ </para> <para> - Bytecode programs which are compiled by <userinput>ocamlc -custom</userinput> must not be stripped. In particular, their package should be excluded from the <command>dh_strip</command> script. When compiled this way, an elf executable is generated containing the ocaml interpreter, and the bytecode of the program in a section which is removed when the program is stripped. For more information, see the bug <ulink url="http://bugs.debian.org/256900";>256900</ulink>. An override for the lintian warning is considered as acceptable in this situation. + Bytecode programs which are compiled by <userinput>ocamlc -custom</userinput> must not be stripped. In particular, their package should be excluded from the <command>dh_strip</command> script. When compiled this way, an elf executable is generated containing the ocaml interpreter, and the bytecode of the program in a section which is removed when the program is stripped. For more information, see the bug <ulink url="http://bugs.debian.org/256900";>256900</ulink>. </para> <para> +When using <command>debhelper</command> directly, +use the <option>--exclude</option> option to <command>dh_strip</command> +to specify bytecode programs that should not be stripped. +With <command>cdbs</command>, +the variable <code>DEB_STRIP_EXCLUDE</code> should be used. +</para> + +<para> Bytecode programs should not be compiled for debugging, i.e. they should not be compiled passing the <option>-g</option> option to <command>ocamlc</command> (or <command>ocamlc.opt</command>).
