Bug#963057: please detect static libs that contains lto .o files

[Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>]

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 5:45 AM Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Could lintian detect static libraries that contain LTO objects files
> instead of standard object files ?

We just implemented a tag when the use of LTO renders a static archive
is unusable [1]:

     https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/commit/7f4621daf12355d271b943cbd1179829f7e12159

Do we need a separate tag for all uses of LTO, as requested here?

Would a classification tag be appropriate? At a minimum, it would
allow further research into the prevalence. Thanks!

Kind regards,
Felix Lechner

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/977596