Bug#479427: epiphany-gecko: please reduce the number of dependencies by avoiding linking to some libs

[Raphael Geissert]

Package: epiphany-gecko
Version: 2.22.1.1-1
Usertags: many-dependencies

Hello,

Your package is one of the packages in the archive with more dependencies (57 
according to a script). 

Based on the build log of your package, there are some dependencies that could 
be dropped if the binaries of your package were only linked to stuff it 
really needs. This is possible to determine thanks to the symbols 
dependencies system recently introduced in dpkg-dev.

It is often as easy as adding some extra LDFLAGS:
LDFLAGS += "-Wl,-z,defs,--as-needed"

Which are later passed to the configure script, like:

LDFLAGS="$(LDFLAGS)" ./configure ...

Thanks,
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