NAME

       dh_strip - strip executables, shared libraries, and some static libraries

SYNOPSIS

       dh_strip [debhelper options] [-Xitem] [--dbg-package=package] [--keep-debug]

DESCRIPTION

       dh_strip is a debhelper program that is responsible for stripping executables, shared libraries, and
       static libraries that are not used for debugging.

       This program examines your package build directories and works out what to strip on its own. It uses
       file(1) and file permissions and filenames to figure out what files are shared libraries (*.so),
       executable binaries, and static (lib*.a) and debugging libraries (lib*_g.a, debug/*.so), and strips each
       as much as is possible. (Which is not at all for debugging libraries.) In general it seems to make very
       good guesses, and will do the right thing in almost all cases.

       Since it is very hard to automatically guess if a file is a module, and hard to determine how to strip a
       module, dh_strip does not currently deal with stripping binary modules such as .o files.

OPTIONS

       -Xitem, --exclude=item
           Exclude  files  that  contain  item  anywhere in their filename from being stripped. You may use this
           option multiple times to build up a list of things to exclude.

       --dbg-package=package
           Causes dh_strip to save debug symbols stripped from the packages it acts on as independent  files  in
           the package build directory of the specified debugging package.

           For  example,  if  your  packages  are  libfoo and foo and you want to include a foo-dbg package with
           debugging symbols, use dh_strip --dbg-package=foo-dbg.

           Note that this option behaves significantly different in debhelper compatibility levels 4 and  below.
           Instead  of  specifying  the  name  of  a debug package to put symbols in, it specifies a package (or
           packages) which should have separated debug symbols, and the separated symbols are placed in packages
           with -dbg added to their name.

       -k, --keep-debug
           Debug symbols will be retained, but split into an independent file in usr/lib/debug/ in  the  package
           build directory. --dbg-package is easier to use than this option, but this option is more flexible.

NOTES

       If  the  DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable contains nostrip, nothing will be stripped, in accordance
       with Debian policy (section 10.1 "Binaries").

CONFORMS TO

       Debian policy, version 3.0.1

SEE ALSO

       debhelper(7)

       This program is a part of debhelper.

AUTHOR

       Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

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