neovim is a debug build

[flemeur]

I was seeing a huge log file in ~/.local/state/nvim/log and upon closer inspection could see that there was a lot of DBG messages in the log file. I then discovered that my nvim says it was build as a debug build. Is this done on purpose?

$ nvim --version
NVIM v0.10.1
Build type: Debug
LuaJIT 2.1.1713484068
Run "nvim -V1 -v" for more info
$ nvim -V1 -v
NVIM v0.10.1
Build type: Debug
LuaJIT 2.1.1713484068
Compilation: /usr/bin/cc -g  -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -Wno-unused-parameter -Wstrict-prototypes -std=gnu99 -Wshadow -Wconversion -Wvla -Wdouble-promotion -Wmissing-noreturn -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wmissing-prototypes -fsigned-char -fstack-protector-strong -Wno-conversion -fno-common -Wimplicit-fallthrough -fdiagnostics-color=always  -DNVIM_LOG_DEBUG -DUNIT_TESTING -DHAVE_UNIBILIUM -D_GNU_SOURCE -DINCLUDE_GENERATED_DECLARATIONS -I/home/makedeb/src/neovim-0.10.1/.deps/usr/include/luajit-2.1 -I/home/makedeb/src/neovim-0.10.1/.deps/usr/include -I/home/makedeb/src/neovim-0.10.1/build/src/nvim/auto -I/home/makedeb/src/neovim-0.10.1/build/include -I/home/makedeb/src/neovim-0.10.1/build/cmake.config -I/home/makedeb/src/neovim-0.10.1/src -I/usr/include 

   system vimrc file: "$VIM/sysinit.vim"
  fall-back for $VIM: "/usr/share/nvim"

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