[Pkg-octave-devel] large .oct files with latest version in testing

[Michael Creel]

Hello Octave packagers,
First of all, thanks for your work on packaging Octave for Debian. I've been
benefiting from the results for a long time now. I notice that .oct files
are a lot larger now than they were a few weeks ago, using octave3.0 in
Lenny. It seems to me that the change occurred when moving from octave3.0
package version 1:3.0.1-2 to 1:3.0.1:3.

I have only the octave3.0 and octave3.0-headers packages installed. I guess
that the new version is not stripping debug information, while the previous
version did so. If I were compiling a single .oct file, I know how to use
--strip to solve the problem. My difficulty is that I'm compiling a large
package that uses a Makefile of its own, and I don't see how to do the
stripping. The package is MPITB for Octave (
http://atc.ugr.es/javier-bin/mpitb).

I don't expect help from this list on how to modify that Makefile, that's
not your job of course. I just want to make sure that octave3.0 now includes
debug symbols into .oct files by default, and that this change is intended.

Thanks, Michael
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