On Mon, 11 May 2015 11:18:29 +0200 Bill Allombert <ballo...@debian.org> wrote: > On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 01:39:43PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 07:24:12PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > > Section 11.2 says > > > > > > strip --strip-unneeded your-lib > > This is still true (the section is 10.2 though). > > > > > Lintian, however, complains if the sections .comment or .note are > > > present, which strip doesn't think are unneeded. > > This is still true, the tag is binary-has-unneeded-section. > > Emitted (non-overridden): 537, overridden: 71, total: 608 > > > > > I don't know whether this is a bug in policy, strip, or lintian, but > > > since Debian's "install -s" and dh_strip both use the additional options > > > > > > --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note > > > > > > I think that it's a policy bug. > > This is still true for dh_strip but not for install -s (since 2005, > > coreutils 5.93-1). > > So to summary: > Policy 11.2 recommends: > strip --strip-unneeded > dh_strip does: > strip --strip-unneeded --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note > install -s does currently: > strip --strip-unneeded > lintian checks for: > strip --strip-unneeded --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note > > is that correct ? > > Did 'install -s' used to do > 'strip --strip-unneeded --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note' ? > Do we know why it was changed ? > > Cheers, > -- > Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> > > Imagine a large red swirl here. > >
Hi, AFAICT, Bill's follow up is nearly a accurate with the following remarks: * The Policy section is (now?) 10.2 (plus some bits in 10.1) * We now have auto-generated dbgsym packages by dh_strip (which were just an idea when Bill wrote that answer). * Policy mentions "--remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note" in a footnote as a "You might also want to use ...". * Policy section 10.1 implies that "INSTALL = install -s" is a useful way of stripping binaries (both in text and examples). Besides not covering the .comment + .note sections it also neuters dh_strip's ability to create dbgsym packages. I think we should update the policy to say that you should use "--strip-unneeded --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note" and maybe recommend delegating that task (where possible) to dh_strip as it provide dbgsym packages. Thanks, ~Niels
