[Development] Not stripping our binaries by default

[Fathi Boudra]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Laszlo Papp <lpapp at kde.org> wrote:
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> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Fathi Boudra <fabo at debian.org> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Laszlo Papp <lpapp at kde.org> wrote:
>> >> That's incorrect. We (Debian/Ubuntu) apply a patch since ages to avoid
>> >> stripping.
>> >
>> > Why? It just works fine on Harmattan and Ubuntu-arm using the debian
>> > tools.
>> > It sounds broken to fail /all/ the time. Such a buildsystem should
>> > really be
>> > fixed, or the package file should use the relevant option established.
>>
>> I can't comment for Harmattan (don't have looked if the debian tools
>> are patched) but for Debian and Ubuntu, if you don't apply the patch,
>> debug packages are broken/empty.
>> Binaries are already stripped when dh_strip tries to strip them and
>> create debug packages.
>>
>> Simple test: remove the patch and verify the debug packages, they're
>> empty.
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>
> Which patch exactly?

the ones in my initial reply. pick your choice.

> I have tried to rebuild the same for Ubuntu (arm) as
> done for Harmattan, and everything looks alright. Cannot say I can reproduce
> this.

I have no idea which environment you have or build into but for sure
download qt4-x11 from any official archive (Debian or Ubuntu), drop
the patch, and build in a clean pbuilder/cowbuilder. As a matter of
fact, the debug packages are empty.

> More to the point: even if it turns out a bug in certain cases, it is a
> false behaviour to always fail. Other buildsystem might expect other
> behaviours... Just use the relevant option if you need it established. That
> does not mean it has to be default and the behaviour now has to be changed
> to get this work.

There's no option to choose the behavior. You have to patch.
Using the developer mode isn't an option.