Bug#681289: debian-policy: Changelog and copyright should be package metadata

2012-07-11 Thread Raphaƫl Hertzog
Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist User: debian-d...@lists.debian.org Usertags: changelog Both the changelog and the copyright files are stored with a package's normal data (within data.tar in the .deb) but they are really package metadata (that should be part of control.tar in the .deb).

Bug#662998: debian-policy: stripping static libraries

2012-07-11 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi, I have created a Lintian branch for detecting insufficient stripping of static libs[1]. On a related note, dh_strip seems to do "the right thing(tm)" so any package using debhelper (correctly) should already strip static libs. Though I did not check if it can do detacted symbols... ~Niels