Bug#293421: dh_strip?

[Brian Warner]

> The build system has not changed and the dev packages is stripped.

Hmm, then I'm seeing something strange:

% dpkg -S /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.a 
libgtk2.0-dev: /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.a
% cd /tmp/
% cp /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.a /tmp/
% ls -l libgtk-x11-2.0.a 
-rw-r--r--  1 warner warner 29964908 Feb  3 18:22 libgtk-x11-2.0.a
% strip libgtk-x11-2.0.a 
% ls -l libgtk-x11-2.0.a 
-rw-r--r--  1 warner warner 2724496 Feb  3 18:22 libgtk-x11-2.0.a

That's more than a 10x reduction in size. The library from the previous
version stripped down to about the same size.

I don't know enough about the build process to tell, but maybe the step that
runs strip is run before the .a gets copied into place? Or maybe it is
stripping the wrong file?

It's also quite possible that something upstream changed to make more debug
information available, perhaps bumping up the default -gN level or something.

 -Brian