did some work on this and am surprised this ever worked in any reliable way: * build does bot pass the -debuginfo packages to rpmlint (the files with the relevant info are in -debuginfo though) https://github.com/openSUSE/obs-build/blob/9ae0e9ebdc4e447123386214a3735ccd8d0d7686/build-recipe-spec#L346 * rpmlint has no configuration for MandatoryOptflags (so the test is skipped in all cases) something like MandatoryOptFlags = ['-O2', '-Wall', '-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3', '-funwind-tables', '-fstack-clash-protection' ] If debuginfo is not enabled in the prj, then the binary/library would be expected to have the dwarf info embedded - but somehow that was also not true in my tests: > file libjson-c.so.5.3.0 libjson-c.so.5.3.0: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, BuildID[sha1]=c98247ef95683cbaa5c37abc9acf4e67b54da8a6, not stripped > objdump libjson-c.so.5.3.0 --dwarf=info libjson-c.so.5.3.0: file format elf64-x86-64