Bug#852342: patch proposal add --no-strip parameter

Sven Hoexter sven at timegate.de
Wed Mar 15 16:19:44 UTC 2017


On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 05:08:53PM +0100, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
> If the stripping breaks jmap, I guess it might be better to disable it
> completely. Is there a good reason to keep it?

Well the idea was to still accomodate people who value disk space over
the usability of debugging related tools. I personally would also just
go without stripping the binary files and value the usability of the tools
over space.

To add a bit of data, here is the size of the extracted packages stripped
and unstripped:
~/oracle-jdk-deb-package$ du -hs extract-*
357M	extract-no-strip
344M	extract-stripped

So from my point of view the difference in size is neglectable, so I'd be
also fine with a fixed "override_dh-strip:" in the generated rules file.

Sven



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