Bug#919957: Please check for binaries depending on unused libraries

[Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>]

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