On 8/26/24 08:27, Michael Tokarev wrote:
I'd love to get some input about an idea which I expressed in
https://bugs.debian.org/1079603 - namely, to move static qemu-user
emulation binaries from qemu-user-static package to qemu-user package
(which contains dynamically-linked binaries with exactly the same
functionality), effectively keeping just one, static, build of qemu-user
instead of two. I see no reason of building two versions of qemu-user
binaries, since static version is well-suited for all usages, while
dynamically-linked one, while obviously smaller, is limited to just
a few use cases.
The details are expressed in the bugreport mentioned above. The
resulting layout is compatible with current expectations, so nothing
should be (immediatly) changed in existing packages/habits.
If there are other reasons to keep non-static build of qemu-user which
I didn't think of, please tell me.
IMHO qemu-user is one of the rare packages, where you want and need static
built binaries.
That said, I fully support your proposal to drop non-static qemu-user binaries.
Helge
