Bug#909267: library-not-linked-against-libc: downgrade from error

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

tags 909267 + moreinfo
severity 909267 wishlist
thanks

Dear Jeremy et al.,

> "I think that tag is too high-priority tbh. In frameworks like GLib
> and Qt it's far from unusual to do everything with higher-level
> functions and not use libc directly at all, and -Wl,--as-needed turns
> that into no dependency.

Before we downgrade it and/or suggest overriding, is there not a way of
detecting such false-positives? That would be a better outcome overall,
no?

(I am not well-versed enough shared library magic to know, alas.)


Regards,

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