tags 631628 + fixed-upstream

On 06/26/2011 07:02 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 02:36:29PM +0000, Andreas Moog wrote:
> 
>> In Ubuntu, the attached patch was applied to achieve the following:
> 
>>   * ypbind-mt-1.20.1/src/Makefile.am/in: (LP: #771034)
>>     put libraries in ypbind_LDADD instead of AM_LDFLAGS to fix FTBFS
>>     with ld --as-needed.
> 
>> Thanks for considering the patch.
> 
> Please submit this upstream if you believe this is useful. 

I believe this to be useful, and upstream apparently already fixed this
in version 1.29.91. So ideally, you shouldn't have to do anything.

> I'd also suggest improving the changelog to describe what the fix is
> actually doing; the changelog just repeats the contents of the diff but
> neither explains the problem nor explains how these changes help.

See http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/02/msg00011.html
and
http://wiki.debian.org/ToolChain/DSOLinking#Onlylinkwithneededlibraries
for an explanation, I might include these pointers in future changelogs.

Thanks.

Cheers, Andreas

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