Hi, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > Lintian, however, complains if the sections .comment or .note are
> > present, which strip doesn't think are unneeded.
>
> Usually, when there is a discrepancy between lintian and
> policy, it is not policy that you change.
>
The question is which makes more sense. In this case I think the lintian test
makes sense, as these sections are unneeded, therefore I think it makes sense
to change policy to reflect common practice.
> > --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note
> >
> > I think that it's a policy bug.
>
> Changing this without a transition plan would mean that a
> number of packages would be rendered buggy (all my C packages, most
> of whom rely on upstream Makefiles install target, and do not call
> install directly).
>
Most packages do that, but then they call dh_strip. Problem solved.
> How many packages would be affected?
[ Checking ] I have 1400+ packages installed on my sid system. I just scanned
my /usr/bin (1500 ELF binaries) and found less than ten packages with
affected files; the 'worst' offenders seem to be binutils and RCS.
I don't have the bandwidth for a complete Debian archive mirror, thus I can't
check all of sarge/sid.
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