Bug#1016563: debhelper: Should dh_dwz be dropped?

[Niels Thykier]

IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU):

Package: debhelper
Followup-For: Bug #1016563

Dear Maintainer,

to add another datapoint:
src:faust is currently (as of 2024-11-11) awaiting removal from testing,
as it has not entered testing for a long time due to dwz lacking support
for DWARF-v5 binaries (#1016936).

I'm currently preparing an upload that overrides dh_dwz (to do nothing),
hopefully mitigating the problem for 'faust', but of course it would be
better if I didn't have to do this.

gmadsr
IOhannes

Hi Matthias,







Best regards,
Niels

I am getting reports of `dwz` not keeping up with current developments and causing grief for packagers with arguments being that the typical optimization is 3%, which does not seem like a lot for developer time spent working around `dh_dwz` (see #1016563 for the longer list of arguments). Currently, we are looking at about 260 packages that are tweaking or working around `dh_dwz` in its current form (search for `override_dh_dwz` on codesearch.d.n) in some way or another. I think we should reconsider having `dh_dwz` on by default. At this point, I am contemplating to pull it out in compat 14.

OpenPGP_signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature