[ not a lintian maintainer ] On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 09:53:45AM +0200, Christian Kastner wrote: > lintian understandably reports about a no longer required > -Wl,--as-needed in bullseye. However, unless I'm mistaken, it's still > needed for building for buster-backports, so removing it has a side effect.
IMHO, this is typical example of a tag that shouldn't have existed until
bullseye was stable. Having -Wl,--as-needed specified in d/rules AND as
internal default from ld brings no downsides whatsoever, bearing one
"extra" line in d/rules.
Instead, I can see how many man-minutes and precious brain cycles were
lost in bugs like this, since you are not the first person to raise this
question.
> The cleanest solution would probably be to remove it, and to simply
> re-add this flag during backporting, at the cost of manual intervention
> (beyond dch --bpo, that is).
>
> The pragmatic solution would be to just override the tag for packages
> where a backport might be expected.
I recommend you just either simply ignore the tag for those packages, or
please an override if it bothers you.
No need to overcomplicate a simple matter by removing and-readding flags
when they can simply just stay there.
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