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

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

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