Hi Simon,
On 16 August 2020 at 23:53, Simon McVittie wrote:
| Source: littler
| Version: 0.3.11-1
| 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 littler 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 §4.9.1). Unconditionally
| using INSTALL_PROGRAM = install would likely be better.
Thanks for the heads-up. Easy enough to fix in
common-binary-post-install-arch::
dh_installdirs usr/bin usr/share/man/man1
install -s -v -m 0644 $(debRlib)/littler/bin/r
$(CURDIR)/debian/$(package)/usr/bin/
install-v -m 0644 $(debRlib)/littler/man-page/r.1
$(CURDIR)/debian/$(package)/usr/share/man/man1/
The package is a bit of an odd-ball -- I am the upstream author, and we at
first had "non-standard" distribution (in that it is an R package but wasn't
going to CRAN).
There is an added difficulty in that R packages only ever install in their
own director and below it, but this one is meant for common $PATH -- which is
where the line above comes from as R has no means to install in, say,
/usr/bin or /usr/local/bin
I made the change in my package sources, this will go out with the next littler
update.
Best, Dirk
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