On 11:18 Thu 15 Nov , Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Vasudev Kamath <kamathvasu...@gmail.com>, 2012-11-13, 20:13:
> >>What did this line do, and why it was removed?
> >> find . -name config.mk | xargs sed -i 's,-s ${LIBS},${LIBS},'
> >Not sure why it was removed, it was not present when I took over
> >source from Micahel. After reading man page for *ld* I see that
> >this option is used to strip of debugging symbols of the binaries.
> >By removing these tools will contain the debugging symbols so I'm
> >not sure how to fix this? The policy 10.1 says symbols should be
> >stripped off with -s to install also section 4.9.1 says about
> >nostrip option does this mean by default debhelper strips of
> >symbols?
>
> Yes, dh_strip strips symbols by default (if
> DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip is not set).
>
> Using -s unconditionally is a bad idea, because then symbols are
> getting stripped even with nostrip.
>
> Of course modifying upstream files in-place in debian/rules is
> probably a bad idea. (If you wanted do that, you'd have to restore
> the original ones in the clean target.)
So I guess its okay that is dropped but I guess needs to be recorded in
changelog? But I don't know how to phrase this removal though :-/
>
> Also note that this is slightly broken: ${LIBS} is expanded by make
> to an empty string, so you actually end up calling:
>
> find . -name config.mk | xargs sed -i 's,-s ,,'
True :-)
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