Bug#919957: Please check for binaries depending on unused libraries
On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 09:42:26AM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On January 21, 2019 8:48:35 AM PST, Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> wrote:
> >Hi Matthias,
> >
> >> [...] I think I'll enable that by default in GCC 9 for bullseye.
> >
> >Cool. I think that therefore asking Developers to add it manually
> >via Lintian would therefore not be ideal - what do you think?
>
> I think there'd still be value in catching binaries that still end up with unused dependencies for some reason, but making --as-needed the default will certainly reduce the incidence of such issues.
It clearly doesn't make sense to have the warning before the default
changed and a large part of the archive has been rebuilt with the
changed default.
After that, the problem will be that lintian would be mostly reporting
the special cases where linking with a library is required despite no
symbol used.
cu
Adrian
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