Previous-Subject: Re: Lintian error about a simple program
On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 11:02:44AM +0100, albert wrote:
L.S.
I have a simple program, created by an official Debian tool (fasm).
$ apt show fasm 2>/dev/null | sed --silent -e '/^Description/,$p'
Description: fast assembler for the x86 and x86-64 architectures
Flat assembler is a fast, self-compilable assembly language compiler for the
x86 and x86-64 architecture processors, which does multiple passes to optimize
the size of generated machine code.
If I put it into a debian archive I get (among others complaints)
E: lina: unstripped-binary-or-object usr/bin/lina
I'm perfectly willing to strip lina
~/PROJECT/ciforths/ciforth$ strip lina
strip: error: the input file 'lina' has no sections ~/PROJECT/ciforths/ciforth$ echo $?
1
So strip refuses to work, moreover it gives an error, possibly
indicative of more problems.
I can find a flag to give to strip to suppress the error condition it gives back.
(-:
strip: error: the input file 'lina' has no sections
:-)
My personal opinion is that lintian should check on superfluous
information, such as debugging symbols. The absence of sections should exonerate a program from containing superfluous information.
Acknowledge. And what is expected from sharing the personal opinion?
In other words:
If you don't know what the purpose of `strip` is, say so.
If you see a possible improvement on Lintian, express it clearly.
(
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#idm368 )
Groeten
Geert Stappers
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