Bug#919957: Please check for binaries depending on unused libraries
On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 08:39:27 +0200 Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 03:45:35PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > I'd love to see lintian catch issues like this:
> >
> > $ ldd -u /sbin/badblocks
> > Unused direct dependencies:
> > /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libblkid.so.1
> >
> > Lintian already parses binaries and libraries with objdump, so catching
> > this seems reasonable.
>
> 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.
- Josh
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