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Is the mentioned issue in the article still true today?

Yes. So is the (IMHO) best workaround of using lddtree (pax-utils) instead. Available on pretty much all distros, though probably not installed by default.

objdump -x /path/to/bin | grep NEEDED

Doesn't tell you if/where the library is found on your system.

for i in $(objdump -p /path/to/bin | grep NEEDED | awk '{print $2}'); do ldconfig -p | awk -v var="$i" '$1==var{print $0}'; done

edit:

even simpler,

for i in $(objdump -p /path/to/bin | grep NEEDED | awk '{print $2}'); do ldconfig -p | grep $i; done

Cool, but I think I'll stick to lddtree ;)

(… it also recurses down on the dependencies, presumably you can extend your shell script to do that too but at some point why not just use the existing tools?)

Not in glibc at least[1], and I reckon many other implementations don't have this problem either.

[1]: https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/manpages/ldd.1.en.html#...

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