On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 19:13:15 +0100 Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net> wrote: > On 2014-02-28 19:05, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > > I could do some work if you point me thé branch > > > > Bastien > > [...] > > It is the branch from [1]; needs to be rebased on top of a recent > version of Lintian. > > ~Niels > > [1] > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/nthykier/lintian.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/strip-static-lib >
This has been deployed as two experimental tags in lintian[1]. * unstripped-static-library (198 packages, 117207 tags) * static-library-has-unneeded-section (2797 packages, 629705 tags) Packages using dh_strip will until yesterday have emitted static-library-has-unneeded-section. But the new version of debhelper will now properly strip these sections as well. As for the "extreme" number of tags (per package): This is caused by Lintian emitted a tag for each object file inside the static lib (x2 as it checks two architectures). Assuming we currently have 40 000 binary packages in the archive, we are dealing with: * At most 7.0% packages with 1 or more partially stripped static library * At most 0.5% packages with 1 or more completely unstripped Since the 7% almost certainly comes from packages using dh_strip, I think it is fairly safe to add stripping of static libraries as a "SHOULD" at this point. Thanks, ~Niels [1] https://lintian.debian.org/tags.html I *cannot* recommend that you click the links for the particular tags. They are rather large given the number of tags. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/55caf854.3040...@thykier.net
