On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 03:45:09PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > Matt Zimmerman writes ("Bug#83924: upgrading-checklist.text should mention > DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS specifically"): > > upgrading-checklist.text states: > > > > - By default executables should not be built with the debugging > > option -g. Instead, it is recommended to support building the > > package with debugging information optionally. > > Why does it say this ? > > IMO the right thing to do is to always build with -g and strip at > `install' time (ie, when the programs are copied into the debian/tmp > directory, before dpkg-deb is run).
As I understand it, this saves quite a bit of CPU time and disk space on the autobuilders. -- - mdz