MDEV-32685 Debian: include ELF package notes #3692
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Description
Providing build information compiled into the executable provides the ability of core file
handlers to access information on the distro and source package version. This information
can sometime be lost between the source and an upstream bug report.
The Debian dh-package-notes includes the makefile included in debian/rules that
sets linking flags to the right values.
ref: https://systemd.io/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA/
Release Notes
Include OS information compiled into executables.
How can this PR be tested?
As buildbot workers don't have the dh-package-notes package installed yet:
Basing the PR against the correct MariaDB version
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branch.PR quality check