I've detected that this happens when the project configuration in obs has <debuginfo><disabled/></debuginfo> In that case the rpmbuild command is run with "--undefine _enable_debug_packages" and looks like this is the cause of non fully stripped binaries. When the debuginfo is enabled the script /usr/lib/rpm/find-debuginfo is run and for each .so file it runs objcopy with the --strip-all flag. The brp-15-strip-debug [1] script is run even if the debuginfo is disabled, but looks like this script doesn't strip all the symbols so just with this, rpmlint find the 'no stripped' string in the file magic. [1] https://github.com/openSUSE/brp-check-suse/blob/master/brp-15-strip-debug#L29