Re: Bug#340934: lintian check for unneeded/transitive shlibs dependencies

2005-11-27 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Peter Samuelson [Henning Makholm] I have written a Lintian check which attempts to flag instances of this problem. It looks for ELF objects that flag shared libraries in the default search path as NEEDED without actually importing symbols that the library exports. This

Re: Bug#340934: lintian check for unneeded/transitive shlibs dependencies

2005-11-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 06:05:52PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: I have written a Lintian check which attempts to flag instances of this problem. It looks for ELF objects that flag shared libraries in the default search path as NEEDED without actually importing symbols that the library

Bug#340934: lintian check for unneeded/transitive shlibs dependencies

2005-11-26 Thread Henning Makholm
Package: lintian Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Steve Langasek wrote in http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/11/msg00016.html: I would encourage you to read the presentation in question, but I will also summarize here: due to accidents of history, the convention when linking an