Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.14.16.6 Severity: wishlist Hello.
Manoj mentioned on IRC an interesting script of him [1] that does check about unneeded NEEDED entries in binaries, but with an interesting feature: only warns if the spurious library linked again is not needed by some other binary in the same *binary* package. In other words, only warn when the spurious linking introduces a spurious dependency at package-level. I think it'd be great if dpkg-shlibdeps could support that, via a switch. And, possibly, I think it ought to be made the default, retaining the current behaviour with a --strict switch or something. I realize this is not straightforward to implement, since it means warnings can't be emitted as they are found. However, I'm convinced it would boost the useability of these warnings (which sadly people tend to ignore at the moment). What do you think? Cheers, [1] http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/checklibs -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read. -- Mark Twain
