Should we stop stripping static libraries?

[Florian Weimer]

We currently call /usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip-static-archive from 
%__os_install_post.  This removes debugging symbols from static (.a) 
libraries.

Is this really a good idea?  Due to this, glibc copies libc.a to 
glibc-debuginfo, so that you can get a link with debugging symbols by 
specifying “-static -L/usr/lib/debug/usr/lib64“ (potentially with 
unintended side effects).  I would like to get this to work by default.

If developers does not want debugging symbols and static libraries have 
them, they can link with -s, or strip the linked object.

Thoughts?

I can file a Fedora 26 system-wide change for this if this warrants one.

Thanks,
Florian