Packages with optflags and/or debuginfo issues

[Caolan McNamara]

On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 23:06 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> Quite a few packages produce useless -debuginfos nowadays.  In addition to 
> empty -debuginfos, a debuginfo package that contains some *.debug files but 
> no sources is also quite likely not honoring $RPM_OPT_FLAGS, and if so, also 
> very likely to have been built without compiler generated security features.  
> Looks like reviewers should pay more attention to these issues (although they 
> can obviously be introduced after reviews too).
> 
> More info, including some suggestions how to fix common cases: 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Debuginfo

"find-debuginfo.sh processes only files that are executable when it's
run"

I think that another obvious reason for empty debuginfo is non owner
writable .so files as well as non-executable ones.

C.