On 7/27/20 5:05 PM, ty...@mit.edu wrote:
> I'm curious why you filed this as a bug against e2fsprogs instead of
Because I just noticed the FTBFS and did not dig deeper until now.
> util-linux. Do you know *why* the util-linux source package dropped
> libblkid.a in libblkid-dev? Did they have a good reason?
util-linux (2.35.2-8) unstable; urgency=medium
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* Stop providing static libraries for: libblkid, libfdisk, libmount,
libsmartcols. Also see #963933.
It started with libmount no longer being statically linkable ... I'm not
sure if the other libs had similar problems or the axe was just chopping
off all the static "cruft", causing collateral damage. This change
should have been verified at least by test-rebuilding all reverse
build-depends of the libraries in question.
> I could solve this by dropping e2fsck-static, but that can be quite
> useful to some Debian users in rescue situations.
Which sounds like a very good point for a static binary.
Andreas
