dh_strip: In v9, pass --compress-debug-sections to objcopy. Needs a new enough binutils and gdb; debhelper backport may need to disable this. Thanks, Aurelien Jarno and Bastien ROUCARIES. Closes: #631985

3 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/debhelper.pod b/debhelper.pod
index b85bc1a5..98da7362 100644
--- a/debhelper.pod
+++ b/debhelper.pod
@@ -481,6 +481,11 @@ explicit binary target with explicit dependencies on the other targets.
 
 =item -
 
+B<dh_strip> compresses debugging symbol files to reduce the installed
+size of -dbg packages.
+
+=item -
+
 B<dh_auto_configure> does not include the source package name
 in --libexecdir when using autoconf.
 
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index fdf03d19..6ebb4d0d 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+debhelper (8.9.10) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+  * dh_strip: In v9, pass --compress-debug-sections to objcopy.
+    Needs a new enough binutils and gdb; debhelper backport
+    may need to disable this.
+    Thanks, Aurelien Jarno and Bastien ROUCARIES. Closes: #631985
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:50:30 -0400
+
 debhelper (8.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * dh_auto_build: Use target architecture (not host architecture) 
diff --git a/dh_strip b/dh_strip
index a38a66be..aebc1009 100755
--- a/dh_strip
+++ b/dh_strip
@@ -166,7 +166,12 @@ sub make_debug {
 	if (! -d $debug_dir) {
 		doit("install", "-d", $debug_dir);
 	}
-	doit($objcopy, "--only-keep-debug", $file, $debug_path);
+	if(compat(8)) {
+		doit($objcopy, "--only-keep-debug", $file, $debug_path);
+	}
+	else {
+		doit($objcopy, "--only-keep-debug --compress-debug-sections", $file, $debug_path);
+	}
 	# No reason for this to be executable.
 	doit("chmod", 644, $debug_path);
 	return $debug_path;