Package: nmap Version: 3.81-1 Severity: normal Building the packace with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip has no real effect. dh_strip gets skipped, but the installed binary still gets stripped:
--8<--- $ DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip dpkg-buildpackage -uc -b -rfakeroot [...] [ -n "y" ] || dh_strip dh_compress [...] $ file nmap debian/tmp/usr/bin/nmap nmap: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, PowerPC or cisco 4500, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.2.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped debian/tmp/usr/bin/nmap: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, PowerPC or cisco 4500, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.2.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped --8<--- The reason for that is that the executable gets unconditionally stripped by make install: --8<--- $ grep -im1 'install.* -s ' Makefile.in $(INSTALL) -c -m 755 nmap -s $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/nmap --8<--- (the same applies to nmapfe) elmar -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-ppc-sleep7 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages nmap depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-12 GCC support library ii libpcre3 5.0-1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7e-3 SSL shared libraries ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-12 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]