From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>
Subject: Re: Questions about Xen qemu-dm so I can finish my
	Debian packaging
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:29:58 +0100
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Thomas Goirand, le Tue 29 Dec 2009 04:55:53 +0800, a =E9crit :
> 4- Is this normal, and could it be avoided:
>=20
> dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on libm.so.6 could be avoided if
> "debian/xen-qemu-dm-3.4/usr/lib/xen-3.4/boot/qemu-dm" were not uselessl=
y
> linked against it (they use none of its symbols).

-lm is needed for hw/fmopl.c.  It shouldn't be any harm to always have
it however, since that's from libc.

> dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on libXext.so.6 could be avoided if
> "debian/xen-qemu-dm-3.4/usr/lib/xen-3.4/boot/qemu-dm" were not uselessl=
y
> linked against it (they use none of its symbols).

qemu doesn't link it itself.  It's probably a spurious Requires in some
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/*.pc that should actually be a Requires.private.

Samuel