debian/changelog

+grass (7.4.3-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+  * Also strip .note section from binaries.
+  * Bump Standards-Version to 4.3.0, changes: strip binaries.
+
+ -- Bas Couwenberg <sebastic@debian.org>  Sun, 23 Dec 2018 12:08:06 +0100
+
 grass (7.4.3-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * New upstream release.

debian/control

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ Build-Depends: autoconf2.13,
                python-wxgtk3.0,
                unixodbc-dev,
                zlib1g-dev
-Standards-Version: 4.2.1
+Standards-Version: 4.3.0
 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/debian-gis-team/grass
 Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/debian-gis-team/grass.git
 Homepage: http://grass.osgeo.org/

debian/rules

@@ -234,11 +234,8 @@ override_dh_auto_install-indep: install-arch-stamp
 
 override_dh_install-arch:
 	# Strip binaries
-	strip debian/tmp/usr/lib/$(BASE_NAME)/bin/r.in.png
-	strip debian/tmp/usr/lib/$(BASE_NAME)/bin/r.out.png
-
-	strip --remove-section=.comment debian/tmp/usr/lib/$(BASE_NAME)/bin/r.in.png
-	strip --remove-section=.comment debian/tmp/usr/lib/$(BASE_NAME)/bin/r.out.png
+	strip --strip-unneeded --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note debian/tmp/usr/lib/$(BASE_NAME)/bin/r.in.png
+	strip --strip-unneeded --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note debian/tmp/usr/lib/$(BASE_NAME)/bin/r.out.png
 
 	dh_install --arch --list-missing