Source: mgetty
Version: 1.2.1-1
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 mgetty invokes 'install -s' for some executables. However,
invoking '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 not respecting the nostrip item in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS (Policy
ยง4.9.1). Using install without the -s option would likely be better.
smcv
