Your message dated Fri, 17 Feb 2023 13:45:25 +0000 with message-id <y++e9vxmmyjyu...@layer-acht.org> and subject line --as-needed enabled by default since bullseye has caused the Debian Bug report #379748, regarding information about unused direct dependencies and --as-needed in LDFLAGS to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: developers-reference Severity: wishlist hi, i just asked myself why we do not make use of --as-needed. While searching the web i ended up with the following Blog entries by Ulrich Drepper, which do pretty well explain when to use --as-needed and in which cases it leads to problems: http://udrepper.livejournal.com/10946.html http://udrepper.livejournal.com/11056.html it might be handy to have this information covered within the developers reference somewhere. bye, - michael
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--- Begin Message ---hi, I'm sorry noone responded to this bug in almost 17 years. I'm closing this bug report now, as --as-needed is enabled by default since bullseye with debhelper 9, see https://wiki.debian.org/HardeningWalkthrough#debhelper_9 this was prepared around 2010 as the page history of https://wiki.debian.org/ToolChain/DSOLinking#Only_link_with_needed_libraries shows. so only two packages set it today in d/rules: https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=--as-needed+debian%2Frules&literal=1 -- cheers, Holger ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ holger@(debian|reproducible-builds|layer-acht).org ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ OpenPGP: B8BF54137B09D35CF026FE9D 091AB856069AAA1C ⠈⠳⣄ The climate crisis makes a minimum voting age of 18 look so extremely unfair.signature.asc
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