Re: F36 Change: Package information on ELF objects (System-Wide Change proposal)

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On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 05:37:01PM +0200, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote:
> On 25/10/2021 21:09, Ben Cotton wrote:
> > All binaries (executables and shared libraries) are annotated with an
> > ELF note that identifies the rpm for which this file was built. This
> > allows binaries to be identified when they are distributed without any
> > of the rpm metadata. `systemd-coredump` uses this to log package
> > versions when reporting crashes.
> 
> -1 for this change, because it will consume file system space and 99.99% of
> users don't need this feature at all.

It is a benefit to Fedora & upstream maintainers who are on the receiving
end of bug reports from users.

Regards,
Daniel
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