The builder's makepkg.conf enables debug and emptydirs. With strip off, makepkg still takes the debug branch of tidy_strip, creates usr/src/debug/<pkgbase> inside the package to hold debug sources, finds none in a prebuilt tree, and emptydirs then ships the empty directory to every user. Seven of the ten -bin packages here that disable strip already disable debug with it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>