Package: debian-policy
Version: 4.6.1.1
Severity: normal
Hello, and thank you for maintaining the Policy!
Policy paragraph 4.9.1 has an example debian/rules which contains these
lines:
INSTALL_PROGRAM = $(INSTALL) -p -o root -g root -m 755
ifeq (,$(filter nostrip,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
INSTALL_PROGRAM += -s
endif
However, paragraph 10.1 recommends against it:
It is not recommended to strip binaries by passing the "-s" flag to
"install", because this fails to remove .comment and .note sections,
and also prevents the automatic creation of dbgsym binary packages by
tools like "dh_strip".
I would personally prefer if the example built on debhelper. If the
intention is to show what are the expectations at a lower level then
I wish the example had a comment saying "This snippet serves to explain
what are the expectations as a lower level. You usually want to use
debhelper instead"
Enrico
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_IE:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
debian-policy depends on no packages.
Versions of packages debian-policy recommends:
ii libjs-sphinxdoc 4.5.0-4
Versions of packages debian-policy suggests:
ii doc-base 0.11.1
-- no debconf information
