Package: lintian Please show an error on static archives without any code sections. This happens when a package ships a lib<foo>.a which is built with -flto=auto, but without -ffat-lto-objects. dh_strip already takes care of stripping the lto sections, but maybe is leaving the .a file unusable.
see https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpmlint/blob/master/rpmlint/checks/BinariesCheck.py (_check_no_text_in_archive function) for an implementation. or a shell implementation: readelf -W --section-headers lib<foo>.a \ | sed -n '/^ *\[[ 0-9]*\]/s/ *\[[ 0-9]*\] *//p' \ | awk 'BEGIN {rv=1} /^NULL/ {next} $1 ~ /^.(text|data|(preinit|init|fini)_array$)/ {if ($5 !~ /^0+$/) rv=0} END { exit rv}' You can test this with e.g. xxhash, building with export DEB_CFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND = -flto=auto and export DEB_CFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND = -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects
