Please remove the following email address: e.little...@gmail.com On Sat, Sep 9, 2023 at 6:18 PM Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote:
> Enrico Zini <enr...@debian.org> writes: > > > Hello, and thank you for maintaining the Policy! > > > Policy paragraph 4.9.1 has an example debian/rules which contains these > > lines: > > > INSTALL_PROGRAM = $(INSTALL) -p -o root -g root -m 755 > > > ifeq (,$(filter nostrip,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS))) > > INSTALL_PROGRAM += -s > > endif > > > However, paragraph 10.1 recommends against it: > > > It is not recommended to strip binaries by passing the "-s" flag to > > "install", because this fails to remove .comment and .note sections, > > and also prevents the automatic creation of dbgsym binary packages by > > tools like "dh_strip". > > > I would personally prefer if the example built on debhelper. If the > > intention is to show what are the expectations at a lower level then > > I wish the example had a comment saying "This snippet serves to explain > > what are the expectations as a lower level. You usually want to use > > debhelper instead" > > I looked at this snippet and I think it has worse problems than the use of > install -s. For example, it predates the existence of dpkg-buildflags, > which would also handle noopt. I'm also dubious that it serves any useful > purpose given that nearly every package should just use debhelper. The > typical current Debian packager seems more likely to be confused by this > fragment than aided by it. > > I'm therefore going to propose fixing this bug with the following patch, > which is more aggressive than you propose. > > I think this is informative rather than normative and therefore > technically doesn't require seconds, but I'll give this some time for > other people to take a look and talk me out of deleting this section if > they wish. > > -- > Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> > >
