Package: debian-policy
Severity: wishlist
As far as I can tell, the Policy currently doesn't require stripping
static libraries[0]. The de facto standard is to strip them with
--strip-debug, because this what dh_strip does[1].
Can we make stripping static libraries a Policy “should”?
[0] The only reference I could find was footnote to §10.2: “You might
also want to use […] ‘--strip-debug’ on static libraries.” This is a bit
odd though, because the footnote applies to a paragraph which talks only
about stripping shared libraries.
[1] More specifically, dh_strip calls “strip --with-debug” on all files
matching “lib*.a”, except those ending with “_g.a”.
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