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From: Joey Hess <joey@kite.ml.org>
Subject: debian-policy: section 4.11 is unclear about -g
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Package: debian-policy
Version: 2.1.3.3

It says:
 Make sure that you do not link with -g, as this makes a.out compilers
 produce huge statically linked binaries.
 The -g flag is useful on compilation so that you have available a full set
 of debugging symbols in your built
 source tree, in case anyone should file a bug report involving (for example)
 a core dump.

Well, we don't use a.out any more, so the first sentance is unnecessary. And
it contradicts the second sentance.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 1.3
Kernel Version: Linux kite 2.0.30 #13 Wed May 28 23:49:18 EDT 1997 i586 unknown