Juju binaries should be stripped

[Martin Packman]

Previously the juju team has been asked to strip the go binaries in the distro packaging. Per bug 1265970 that was not possible as with go 1.2 it introduced bugs such as bug 1200255.

With go 1.6 in xenial, it may now be safe to strip the juju binaries, but this needs testing on all architectures, including exercising the reflect code.

See irc log for more background:

<http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2016/03/31/%23ubuntu-release.html#t20:21>

[Richard Harding (rharding)]

This will be a target for the Juju team to update and verify that the stripping of the binary is safe and passes all testing. This requires building in some gating based on if the binary is golang vs gccgo.

[John A Meinel (jameinel)]

I tried stripping my 1.6 based build, and it seems to be working. (Juju does reflection at init() time as part of some of the registries), so it seems safe to do. On the flip side it isn't amazingly better. It seems to be a bit less than 2:1. (73MB down to 40MB.) Almost certainly still worth it, just doesn't compensate for the 1:10 growth of the Juju binary itself over time.

[Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson)]

building cmd/juju with go 1.7 tip and then stripping results in a
binary that is "only" 33 MB, so there is some progress being made
there too :-)

On 6 April 2016 at 17:30, John A Meinel <email address hidden> wrote:
> I tried stripping my 1.6 based build, and it seems to be working. (Juju
> does reflection at init() time as part of some of the registries), so it
> seems safe to do. On the flip side it isn't amazingly better. It seems
> to be a bit less than 2:1. (73MB down to 40MB.) Almost certainly still
> worth it, just doesn't compensate for the 1:10 growth of the Juju binary
> itself over time.
>
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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package juju-core - 2.0~beta12-0ubuntu3.16.10.1

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juju-core (2.0~beta12-0ubuntu3.16.10.1) yakkety; urgency=medium

  * Add skip to current-manual-provider for bug 1605313 and bug 1605050

 -- Nicholas Skaggs <email address hidden> Thu, 21 Jul 2016 15:12:52 -0400

[Chris J Arges (arges)]

Hello Martin, or anyone else affected,

Accepted juju-core into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/juju-core/2.0~beta12-0ubuntu1.16.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package juju-core - 2.0~beta12-0ubuntu1.16.04.1

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juju-core (2.0~beta12-0ubuntu1.16.04.1) xenial-proposed; urgency=medium

  [ Nicholas Skaggs ]
  * New upstream release 2.0-beta12 (LP: #1604137).
  * Update debian/copyright.
  * Add skip to current-manual-provider for bug 1605313 and bug 1605050
  * Fix adt test for manual-provider

  [ Martin Packman ]
  * Allow stripping of go binaries (LP: #1564662).
  * Mark juju-2.0 as conflicting and replacing old ppas (LP: #1600257).
  * Adjust where bash completion script is installed (LP: #1588403).

 -- Nicholas Skaggs <email address hidden> Mon, 18 Jul 2016 14:00:19 -0400