I ran 'fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage' on the source and it didn't strip the binary but after stripping it was the same size as the one I built manually. Are those build options something I need to add? Do you know how to produce a stripped package?
[sbox-DIABLO_ARMEL: ~/matchbox-window-manager-1.2] > find . -name matchbox-window-manager -type f | xargs file ./src/matchbox-window-manager: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.8, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped ./debian/matchbox-window-manager/usr/bin/matchbox-window-manager: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.8, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped ./debian/matchbox-window-manager-dbg/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/matchbox-window-manager: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, version 1 (ARM), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped ./debian/tmp/usr/bin/matchbox-window-manager: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.8, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped