Hi, On Sat, 04 Jun 2011, Cristian Henzel wrote: > My application [1] depends on gtk+-2.0 and -pthread seems to be brought in by > this: > $ pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0 > -pthread -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include > -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 > -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0/ -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 > -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 > -I/usr/include/libpng12 > > This seems to make dpkg-shlibdeps throw a warning [2], which I'd consider to > be > invalid. > [2] - dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on libpthread.so.0 could be avoided > if "debian/clipit/usr/bin/clipit" were not uselessly linked against it (they > use none of its symbols).
Why do you consider it invalid? It happens quite often that the pkg-config call returns more libs than strictly required. It might be a bug in the .pc file or it's a deliberate choice because some use cases might need the library. dpkg-shlibdeps already has options so that you can exclude the warnings that you want to ignore... I don't really see what you expect in response to your bug report. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
