Linking with --as-needed in Debian Packages (Was: Re: RFS: flamerobin (updated package))

[Richard Laager <rlaager@wiktel.com>]

On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 14:31 +0200, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
>    * Added --as-needed to LDFLAGS to avoid unnecessary NEEDED entries.
>      Thanks to Christian 'Greek0' Aichinger.

Is the use of --as-needed encouraged/discouraged in Debian? Is there a
reason this isn't used system-wide? (I'm aware some packages have
issues, but those can and should be addressed individually.)

Richard

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