On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 11:57 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > I do not mind about the severity of the bug (since IMHO also wishlist > bugs should be closed). My point was that to my understanding people > are misunderstanding policy when giving the advise to ignore static > library.
We should change policy and packaging tools such that static linking are not enabled by default and only enabled when there is a good reason to do so; when requested by users or when there is some other issue with dynamic libs. If anyone wants to help out there: https://wiki.debian.org/StaticLinking -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise