Surgut

This advice has been posted on the debian-mentors mailing list. A quick how to generate symbols file $ apt-get source libsword6 $ cd sword-1.5.9 $ debuild binary $ rm -f debian/*.symbols dpkg-gensymbols* $ dpkg-gensymbols -plibsword6 -Pdebian/libsword6 | patch -p0 $ mv dpkg-gensymbols* debian/libsword6.symbols $ perl -pi -e 's/-\d.*//' debian/libsword6.symbols

dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on $(lib) could be avoided if $(object) were not uselessly linked against it (they use none of its symbols). I didn't like this build time warning at all. In the library packaging guide a found a nifty trick, add this line to the debian/rules (this is cdbs, don't know how it is done with debhelper scripts) DEB_CONFIGURE_SCRIPT_ENV += LDFLAGS=" -Wl,--as-needed" This worked for the executable and I've saved 300 bytes!!!!! Yeah =D It didn't work for the library though =( Bummer.