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

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Sun, Nov 14, 2021 at 05:41:41AM -0800, Felix Lechner wrote:
> 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!

Hello Felix,

We need separate tags for the two cases, because one is a major bug 
(the .a is useless) and the other is a minor bug (the .a is uselessly
large).

Cheers,
Bill