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by UncleEntity 462 days ago
Or, if I understand TFA correctly, don't release debug builds in your release packages.

Reminds me of back in the day, when I was messing around with blender's cmake config files quite a bit, I noticed the fedora package was using the wrong flag -- some sort of debug only flag intended for developers instead of whatever they thought is was. I mentioned this to the package maintainer, it was confirmed by package sub-maintainer (or whomever) and the maintainer absolutely refused to change it because the spelling of the two flags was close enough they could just say "go away, contributing blender dev, you have no idea what you're talking about." Wouldn't doubt the fedora package still has the same mistaken flag to this day and all this occurred something like 15 years ago.

So, yeah, don't release debug builds if you're a distro package maintainer.