the issue was fixed in debian in 2006, I guess it was forwarded to fltk 
upstream. You have to ask the debian maintainer about this.
If upstreams provide tools that mess with the distributions infrastructure it 
is well within its right to touch them.
the tool spouting out all libraries necessary to link statically caused reverse 
dependencies to gather unnecessary entries in their dt-needed table which is 
used to determine package interdependencies. So this causes unnecessary 
entangled dependency chains and increases the amount of work necessary for 
transitions.
Also it masks bugs in other software like yours.
If your application uses x11 libraries do not rely on fltk being linked against 
it and it being resolved indirectly, link against it yourself.

> will 'pkg-config --libs x11' correctly return all needed image libraries FLTK 
>  compiled against?
you don't need to know that, the dynamic linker knows it and thats enough.

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