Strip Go symbol table from release binaries#2843
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Adds -s to the goreleaser ldflags alongside the existing -w. Per maintainer testing on tektoncd#2109, building with -s -w shrinks the tkn binary from ~207MB to ~147MB (~30%) compared to the current -w-only default. Signed-off-by: alliasgher <alliasgher123@gmail.com>
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-sto the goreleaser ldflags alongside the existing-w.Per maintainer testing in #2109, building
tknwith-s -wshrinks the binary from ~207MB to ~147MB (~30%) compared to the current-w-only default. The release pipeline already strips DWARF debug info via-w; adding-sadditionally strips the Go symbol table, which is purely a size optimization for release artifacts.Fixes part of #2109.
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