On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 08:39:27 +0200 Adrian Bunk <b...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 03:45:35PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > > I'd love to see lintian catch issues like this: > > > > $ ldd -u /sbin/badblocks > > Unused direct dependencies: > > /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libblkid.so.1 > > > > Lintian already parses binaries and libraries with objdump, so catching > > this seems reasonable. > > This does not sound like a good idea to me, since fixing such warnings > would result in many ugly (and sometimes not upstreamable) hacks.
In most cases, fixing such warnings would involve either adding --as-needed or just removing a library from linking for a given program. - Josh
