* Vasudev Kamath <kamathvasu...@gmail.com>, 2012-11-15, 17:22:
What did this line do, and why it was removed?
find . -name config.mk | xargs sed -i 's,-s ${LIBS},${LIBS},'
Not sure why it was removed, it was not present when I took over
source from Micahel. After reading man page for *ld* I see that this
option is used to strip of debugging symbols of the binaries. By
removing these tools will contain the debugging symbols so I'm not
sure how to fix this? The policy 10.1 says symbols should be stripped
off with -s to install also section 4.9.1 says about nostrip option
does this mean by default debhelper strips of symbols?
Yes, dh_strip strips symbols by default (if DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip
is not set).
Using -s unconditionally is a bad idea, because then symbols are
getting stripped even with nostrip.
Of course modifying upstream files in-place in debian/rules is
probably a bad idea. (If you wanted do that, you'd have to restore the
original ones in the clean target.)
So I guess its okay that is dropped but I guess needs to be recorded in
changelog? But I don't know how to phrase this removal though :-/
You have to get rid of -s one way or another, because it breaks
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip.
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