Re: Policy for stripping binaries

2001-04-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 07:08:14PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 05:03:34PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > >> It was elevated to see just how many people this affected. Almost no one > >> runs > >> lintian with -I, I have h

Re: Policy for stripping binaries

2001-04-22 Thread Bob Hilliard
Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 04:44:24PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: > > gcc apparently creates sections `.note' and `.comment' when compiling > > binaries. Running either `strip' or the -s option to install does not > > remove these redundant secti

Re: Policy for stripping binaries

2001-04-22 Thread Herbert Xu
Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 05:03:34PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> It was elevated to see just how many people this affected. Almost no one >> runs >> lintian with -I, I have had several bugs linger for a while that only come >> out >> when -I i

Re: Policy for stripping binaries

2001-04-22 Thread Richard Braakman
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 05:03:34PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > It was elevated to see just how many people this affected. Almost no one runs > lintian with -I, I have had several bugs linger for a while that only come out > when -I is active and no one ever saw them. What kinds of bugs?

Re: Policy for stripping binaries

2001-04-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 12:11:12AM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote: > > Rules files rarely call strip directly, and when they do it > is uncomfortable to add the long options for stripping those > two sections. It doesn't makes much difference whether 99% > or 100% of the binaries strip them, becau

Re: Policy for stripping binaries

2001-04-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 04:44:24PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: > gcc apparently creates sections `.note' and `.comment' when compiling > binaries. Running either `strip' or the -s option to install does not > remove these redundant sections. Lintian issues a warning > `binary-has-unneeded-sec

Re: Policy for stripping binaries

2001-04-21 Thread Richard Braakman
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 04:44:24PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: > gcc apparently creates sections `.note' and `.comment' when compiling > binaries. Running either `strip' or the -s option to install does not > remove these redundant sections. Lintian issues a warning > `binary-has-unneeded-sec

Policy for stripping binaries

2001-04-21 Thread Bob Hilliard
gcc apparently creates sections `.note' and `.comment' when compiling binaries. Running either `strip' or the -s option to install does not remove these redundant sections. Lintian issues a warning `binary-has-unneeded-section' when it detects these sections in a binary. I don't think