Source: gdb Version: 9.2-1 Severity: minor A bug report against fteqcc (#968524) prompted me to look for other instances of the same anti-pattern on codesearch.debian.net.
d/rules in gdb invokes 'install -s'. However, 'install -s' is usually only harmful for a Debian package, not helpful: it discards debugging symbols that could otherwise have gone into a -dbgsym package, when cross-compiling it uses the wrong strip(1) implementation (from the build rather than host architecture), and it results in the nostrip option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS being ignored (see Policy ยง4.9.1). Removing the -s option would probably be better, unless there's some specific reason to be using it. smcv