[debhelper-devel] Bug#711750: dh_strip: allow to disable compression of debug info files

[Niels Thykier]

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On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 11:53:32 +0100 Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
<pochu at debian.org> wrote:
> On 10/06/13 16:45, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> >> I updated webkit to compat 9 to get compressed build-id debug info files.
> >> However it seems this is going to be a problem for some builders,
> >> as in a local build I got:
> >>
> >> BFD: debian/libwebkitgtk-1.0-0/usr/lib/libwebkitgtk-1.0.so.0.18.7: unable to initialize compress status for section .debug_info
> >> objcopyebian/libwebkitgtk-1.0-0/usr/lib/libwebkitgtk-1.0.so.0.18.7: Memory exhausted
> > 
> > Isn't this be a bug in objcopy --compress-debug-sections?
> > Compressing data with zlib should not require much memory.
> 
> I guess. In any case, until objcopy gains support for xz compression, I'm afraid
> I won't be able to bump compat to 9 in webkit, which means we don't get build-id
> support, which would be immensely useful. But I understand if you don't want to
> add an option for such a corner case.
> 
> Regards,
> Emilio
> 
> 

Hi,

Is this still an issue?

Thanks,
~Niels

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