On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 05:29:20PM +0200, Daniel Kobras wrote: > > I have prepared a package of libdv, a library to de- and encode digital > video data, and noted that it violates current policy: The x86 version > of the library contains optimized assembler routines that are not > relocatable. Therefore, the lib on x86 won't build as a shared library, > which is in conflict with the first paragraph of debian-policy sect. 11.2, > mandating also shared versions of each lib. I have contacted upstream > about this, and they prefer to keep libdv static-only for performance > reasons. When I brought up this issue on debian-devel, it was suggested > I build a libdv-dev package only across all archs and request a policy > change allowing static-only uploads as well in special cases. >
I maintain libnet this way, it only ships as a static lib. So I have a libnet0-dev package. Someday I hope to have a shared version. My libmad package used to only be static, but now I have both. Not really sure we need policy to approve this.
