Bug#919957: Please check for binaries depending on unused libraries

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

[Adding doko@debian.org to CC]

Josh Triplett wrote:

> > This does not sound like a good idea to me, since fixing such warnings 
> > would result in many ugly (and sometimes not upstreamable) hacks.
> 
> In most cases, fixing such warnings would involve either adding
> --as-needed or just removing a library from linking for a given program.

I believe Adrian's wider point was more that there would be no need to
add --as-needed if it were made the default in Debian.

I believe doko (added to CC) was working on this (eg. #916831); is there
a status, ETA, tracking bug, etc.?


Regards,

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