[Pkg-samba-maint] symbols stripped from /usr/lib/samba/idmap/*.so

[Steve Langasek]

On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 11:01:12PM -0700, C.J. Adams-Collier KF7BMP wrote:
> Hey folks,

> dh_strip is a little strip happy when it comes to samba modules, at
> least with the one I modified to build on Ubuntu 10.04 from this:

> http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports/pool/main/s/samba/samba_3.6.6-6~bpo60+1.dsc

> The one on my wheezy machine seems to have the same problem:

> cjac at foxtrot:~/public_html/src/samba3_bsd6$ lsb_release -a
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID:	Debian
> Description:	Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 (wheezy)
> Release:	7.0
> Codename:	wheezy
> cjac at foxtrot:~/public_html/src/samba3_bsd6$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall winbind
> ...
> cjac at foxtrot:~/public_html/src/samba3_bsd6$ nm /usr/lib/samba/idmap/ad.so
> nm: /usr/lib/samba/idmap/ad.so: no symbols

What problem are you actually trying to address?

$ nm -D /usr/lib/samba/idmap/ad.so | wc -l
61
$

It's perfectly normal that 'nm' by itself shows no symbols for a properly
stripped ELF library.

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