Hello Go and Rust packagers, On Thu 18 Apr 2024 at 11:29pm +03, Maytham Alsudany wrote:
> With the increasing amount of programs in Debian that Build-Depend and > statically link with Golang and Rust libraries, it's important that > the Debian Policy clearly sets out the requirements for declaring > these statically-linked libraries. I think Maytham is right that updating Policy for this is a priority. It has been bothering me that misunderstandings of Built-Using have been proliferating somewhat among newer contributors. See also #999785. Could you take a look at his proposed changes to Policy in #1069256, please, and confirm they successfully reconcile Debian Policy with your team policies? I think that we should also include an explanation of why we have chosen to do this using a new field in d/control like Static-Built-Using. Policy is meant to be a record of our lessons learned in building a distribution, and the lessons learned in trying to handle these new hyper-statically linked language ecosystems seem important. My immediate question is why the Haskell and OCaml team's approaches, were not copied. They seem to work well and don't require a new field. That seems worth writing down. Thank you Maytham for your work so far. -- Sean Whitton
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