Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.16.8 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/dpkg-shlibdeps
dpkg-shlibdeps warns that "package could avoid a useless dependency" if an executable or library is linked against any library whose symbols it does not actually use. However, when libraries share a package, unnecessary linking does not necessarily cause a useless dependency. For instance, if you link against any of GLib, GObject, GIO and GModule, uselessly linking against any of the others is not a problem, because you're going to depend on libglib2.0-0 in any case; and if you link against libc, uselessly linking against libm, libpthread etc. does not introduce a dependency, because you're going to depend on libc6 (or libc0.1 or whatever) in any case. In the particular case of libpthread, evading the library dependency can apparently even be harmful, if you're going to dlopen modules that really do depend on libpthread later (which is why GModule explicitly depends on it, and triggers "useless dependency" warnings in everything that links GModule, which is basically everything GNOME-related). See: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.gtk+.devel.general/18117 If you're not willing to do this in general, just silencing the warning for libpthread in the same way that's already been done for libm would also be a reasonable solution. Thanks, S -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing-proposed-updates APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages dpkg-dev depends on: ii base-files 6.11 ii binutils 2.22-7.1 ii bzip2 1.0.6-4 ii libdpkg-perl 1.16.8 ii make 3.81-8.2 ii patch 2.6.1-3 ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-1 Versions of packages dpkg-dev recommends: ii build-essential 11.5 ii clang [c-compiler] 3.1-8 ii fakeroot 1.18.4-2 ii gcc [c-compiler] 4:4.7.1-1 ii gcc-4.6 [c-compiler] 4.6.3-10 ii gcc-4.7 [c-compiler] 4.7.1-9 ii gnupg 1.4.12-4+b1 ii gpgv 1.4.12-4+b1 ii libalgorithm-merge-perl 0.08-2 Versions of packages dpkg-dev suggests: ii debian-keyring 2012.06.01 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
