Re: [bug-inetutils] [PATCH RFC] Improve dependencies and automake variables

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   In Debian we use at package build time a helper "dpkg-shlibdeps"
   that checks claimed library dependencies of binaries to be
   installed.  In cases were a build system implement linking that is
   in fact not needed since all relevant symbols are missing, then
   this helper prints a warning message.

   The list below contains those warnings on a GNU/kFreeBSD system
   building inetutils-1.8. I have inserted a newline where another
   executable comes into scope, this is to ease the reading.

Thank you.

   Hopefully you will be convinced fo the relevance of the present
   suggestion by this heavy list.

It only convinces me that Debian is doing something wrong; we don't
link to libnsl, or libdl--other libraries might!  We do link to other
libraries (if they exist), and symbols in those libraries are not used
there is no harm in doing so.

I've pushed a patch that cleans up things a bit, I would be suprised
it it fixes any of the silly things that Debian tries to impose though
if it does I'm happy, if it doesn't then someone needs to fix this
aweful dpkg-shlibdebs script.