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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: Please check for binaries depending on unused libraries
- From: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
- Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 15:45:35 -0800
- Message-id: <[🔎] 154802793542.10432.12540154066452601488.reportbug@s>
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.122 Severity: normal 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. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.31.1-11 ii bzip2 1.0.6-9 ii diffstat 1.62-1 ii dpkg 1.19.2 ii dpkg-dev 1.19.2 ii file 1:5.35-2 ii gettext 0.19.8.1-9 ii gpg 2.2.12-1 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.34+b1 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.64-1 ii libcgi-pm-perl 4.40-1 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1 ii libclone-perl 0.41-1+b1 pn libdigest-sha-perl <none> ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.2 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.08-1 ii libipc-run-perl 20180523.0-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b4 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-13 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii liburi-perl 1.76-1 ii libxml-simple-perl 2.25-1 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.76+repack-1 ii man-db 2.8.5-1 ii patchutils 0.3.4-2 ii perl 5.28.1-3 ii t1utils 1.41-3 ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3 Versions of packages lintian recommends: pn libperlio-gzip-perl <none> Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b3 ii libtext-template-perl 1.54-1 -- no debconf information
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- To: 919957-done@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Bug#919957: Please check for binaries depending on unused libraries
- From: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 18:11:31 +0000
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Hi Josh, > 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. Getcha. Let's therefore revisit this after it becomes the default. :) Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` lamby@debian.org 🍥 chris-lamb.co.uk `-
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