On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 05:53:48PM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote:
> Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> writes:
> > I need to package libsdsl[1] as some precondition for a Debian Med
> > package. The default cmake build only creates a static library and I
> > found a patch to create a shared library. But since library packages
> > should include both I wonder how to get both shared and static library
> > without doing to much tricky things.
>
> For the common case, I see no real reason to include both; having just
> the dynamic libs and the header is enough, IMO.
Policy says[1]:
The static library (libraryname.a) is usually provided in addition to
the shared version.
I have no good reason to derive from this.
> The only use case I could imagine is to create an executable that can
> run outside of Debian.
That's a valid use case for consumer of the lib*-dev package.
Kind regards
Andreas.
[1]
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html#s-sharedlibs-static
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