Re: Dependencies on shared libs, take 2

[Oleg Verych <olecom@flower.upol.cz>]

* From: Julien Cristau
> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
>
> On Wed, Jun  6, 2007 at 17:50:26 +0000, Oleg Verych wrote:
>
>> Just as better alternative IMHO, please consider using `eu-readelf -ds`
>> from elfutils.
>
> elfutils isn't build-essential. binutils is, and does the job, so "it's
> better IMHO" isn't a particularly compelling reason to make all packages
> build-depend on a new package.

Well, if that set of utils was started, maitained and debianized, that
means, there are goals as from design, as from usage points of view.
Eventually it can become essential, as gcc folks have nothing to worry
about the linker or libc.
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