On Sun, Nov 14, 2021 at 05:41:41AM -0800, Felix Lechner wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 5:45 AM Bill Allombert <ballo...@debian.org> wrote: > > > > Could lintian detect static libraries that contain LTO objects files > > instead of standard object files ? > > We just implemented a tag when the use of LTO renders a static archive > is unusable [1]: > > > https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/commit/7f4621daf12355d271b943cbd1179829f7e12159 > > Do we need a separate tag for all uses of LTO, as requested here? > > Would a classification tag be appropriate? At a minimum, it would > allow further research into the prevalence. Thanks!
Hello Felix, We need separate tags for the two cases, because one is a major bug (the .a is useless) and the other is a minor bug (the .a is uselessly large). Cheers, Bill