[Development] Not stripping our binaries by default

Fathi Boudra fabo at debian.org
Tue Sep 25 11:20:08 CEST 2012


On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Laszlo Papp <lpapp at kde.org> wrote:
>> Hence, I do not personally consider your concern now valid. I think the
>> minor and major qualifiers as you introduced those, are in the opposite
>> order.
>
>
> To be fair, I have only seen this as a problem for Tizen so far. I have seen
> various builds with the debian and archlinux packagings (which are two out
> of the well-known ones on Linux by the way), but this was a no issue from
> what I can tell. I have not had any such packaging issues with this on
> Windows either.

That's incorrect. We (Debian/Ubuntu) apply a patch since ages to avoid
stripping.
A patch that I pulled in Meego builds as well.

As far as I'm concerned, I welcome Thiago's patch.

[1] in Qt4 http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-kde/qt/qt4-x11.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/12_add_nostrip_for_debug_packages.diff;h=d5f3083eff90ae0b748b6ab542aa951f4e6d0004;hb=HEAD
[2] In Qt5 http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-kde/qt/qtbase.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/add_nostrip_for_debug_packages.patch;h=b1444de304ce08a70bcf29922dea56eabeb54ac5;hb=HEAD
[3] http://build.meego.com/package/view_file?file=add_nostrip_for_debug_packages.patch&package=qt&project=devel%3Aqt-mtf&srcmd5=8adf3abc210b1ee685ab21103dfdd4de



More information about the Development mailing list