[ Josh: The BTS does not Cc submitter or commenters, so I didn't get your email. ]
On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 03:37:02PM +0000, Chris Lamb wrote: > [Adding d...@debian.org to CC] > > Josh Triplett wrote: > > > > This does not sound like a good idea to me, since fixing such warnings > > > would result in many ugly (and sometimes not upstreamable) hacks. > > > > In most cases, fixing such warnings would involve either adding > > --as-needed or just removing a library from linking for a given program. > > I believe Adrian's wider point was more that there would be no need to > add --as-needed if it were made the default in Debian. Correct, manually adding --as-needed on a per-package basis would be more work for less benefits. > I believe doko (added to CC) was working on this (eg. #916831); is there > a status, ETA, tracking bug, etc.? These are FTBFS in Ubuntu, which switched to --as-needed as default 8 years ago. > Regards, cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed