Bug#919957: Please check for binaries depending on unused libraries
[ Josh: The BTS does not Cc submitter or commenters, so I didn't get
your email. ]
On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 03:37:02PM +0000, Chris Lamb wrote:
> [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.
Correct, manually adding --as-needed on a per-package basis would be
more work for less benefits.
> I believe doko (added to CC) was working on this (eg. #916831); is there
> a status, ETA, tracking bug, etc.?
These are FTBFS in Ubuntu, which switched to --as-needed
as default 8 years ago.
> Regards,
cu
Adrian
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