Control: forcemerge 896012 909267 Hi Russ,
> I wonder if we would get all of the utility out of the tag if instead it > looked for shared libraries with no NEEDED metadata. I think it's only > catching libraries that aren't linked with anything else, so maybe just > check for that explicitly? That is a super creative suggestion! However, nothing may be wrong with those libraries. We seem to ship quite a few [1]. [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=896012#38 > My recollection is that Simon is correct and we added this tag to try to > find shared libraries that weren't linked to any of their dependencies. I don't believe Lintian can do something like that. As described in the merged bug [2], I think we need a portfolio-wide dependency tracker. [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=896012#31 This tag will be removed in the near future. Kind regards Felix Lechner