On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote: > Um, no. We have literally thousands of packages shipping static libraries > (in addition to shared libraries). Policy §8.3 says: > “The static library (‘<libraryname.a>’) is usually provided in addition to > the shared version.”
Due to the downsides we should probably change that part of policy and preventing the addition of new static libs is an essential part of such a change. https://wiki.debian.org/StaticLinking -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
