On January 21, 2019 8:48:35 AM PST, Chris Lamb <la...@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.
