Bug#661928: debian-policy: recipe for determining shlib package name

2012-03-07 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Jakub Wilk , 2012-03-02, 19:47: Lintian suggests the following command to determine correct name for a shared library package: objdump -p /path/to/libfoo-bar.so.1.2.3 | sed -n -e's/^[[:space:]]*SONAME[[:space:]]*//p' | sed -e's/\([0-9]\)\.so\./\1-/; s/\.so\.//' Could this code be included

Bug#662998: debian-policy: stripping static libraries

2012-03-07 Thread Jakub Wilk
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] Th