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Re: #520646: binNMU oprofile



On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Adeodato Simó wrote:

> I’m told libbfd.so is a private/internal library of binutils that should
> not be dynamically linked against. A static version exists (libbfd.a),
> and packages should be using that AFAIK.
>
> Cc'ing -devel in case there’s a reason it should not be that way. If, on
> the contrary, nobody objects, I’ll file a wishlist against lintian so
> that an error (warning?) is emitted for packages that DT_NEED that
> library (and libopcodes/libiberty as well?)

Please ensure that the lintian warning says to get the package added
to the Debian security team's embedded code copies documentation.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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