Control: tags -1 moreinfo On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 09:34:22 +0100 Matthias Klose <d...@debian.org> wrote: > Package: debhelper > Version: 12.1 > Severity: important > Tags: sid buster > > afaics this change was made in > > debhelper (9.20150811) unstable; urgency=medium > > * dh_strip: Always compress debug sections of debug symbols > in ddebs. > > What was the reason for enabling this? [...]
Because dh_strip did it by default for compat 9 and I decided to mirror that like I did with using build-ids on the basis that the new default made sense. But I do not know why Joey made compat 9 use compressed debug symbols by default. That said, I am not emotionally invested in whether debug symbols are compressed or not. Only that I am not stuck between two parties each wanting the other option by default. If you want to move forward with this change, then please start a discussion about this on debian-devel and document the consensus of that discussion if any. For the record, if the consensus is to stop compressing then I intend to remove it retroactively as any tool that worked with a compressed dbgsym file also work with the uncompressed version as far as I am informed. (Mentioned for completeness because I assume it would suit you fine). Thanks, ~Niels
