Public bug reported:

glibc appears in the ELF package metadata of (all?) binary packages.
Examples:

```
$ readelf --notes /usr/bin/hd | tail -n6
Displaying notes found in: .note.package
  Besitzer             Datengröße       Description
  FDO                  0x00000060       FDO_PACKAGING_METADATA
    Packaging Metadata: 
{"type":"deb","os":"ubuntu","name":"glibc","version":"2.40-4ubuntu1","architecture":"amd64"}
  FDO                  0x00000068       FDO_PACKAGING_METADATA
    Packaging Metadata: 
{"type":"deb","os":"ubuntu","name":"util-linux","version":"2.40.2-14ubuntu1","architecture":"amd64"}
```

or

```
$ readelf --notes /usr/bin/sleep | tail -n6
Displaying notes found in: .note.package
  Besitzer             Datengröße       Description
  FDO                  0x00000060       FDO_PACKAGING_METADATA
    Packaging Metadata: 
{"type":"deb","os":"ubuntu","name":"glibc","version":"2.40-4ubuntu1","architecture":"amd64"}
  FDO                  0x00000060       FDO_PACKAGING_METADATA
    Packaging Metadata: 
{"type":"deb","os":"ubuntu","name":"coreutils","version":"9.5-1ubuntu1","architecture":"amd64"}
```

** Affects: glibc (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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  glibc package metadata in all binaries

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