On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 12:11:12AM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote: > > Rules files rarely call strip directly, and when they do it > is uncomfortable to add the long options for stripping those > two sections. It doesn't makes much difference whether 99% > or 100% of the binaries strip them, because the space savings > was small in the first place. So I don't think this should be > a Lintian warning. It used to be an info-level tag (those are > only shown if requested with -I), and I think that's still the > right level. >
It was elevated to see just how many people this affected. Almost no one runs lintian with -I, I have had several bugs linger for a while that only come out when -I is active and no one ever saw them.