On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 07:49:32PM +0200, Daniel Kobras wrote: > On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 10:28:57AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > 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. > > Maybe I'm overly cautious here, but the sentence in question reads > > 'All libraries must have a shared version in the lib package and a static > version in the lib-dev package.' (sect. 11.2). > > In my view this mandates a shared and a static lib of each packages. I may > be meant to only say which variant has to go where, but then it appears badly > worded to me. Anyway, if this is not the first static-only package in the > archive, it'll just upload it as-is. Thanks for the info! >
I think it is supposed to mean that if a library can be shared, you place the shared in libfoo and the static in libfoo-dev.
