Bug#845255: debian-policy: Include best practices for packaging database applications

2016-11-21 Thread Paul Gevers
Package: debian-policy Severity: normal -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 It has been a while since the first version of the "Best practices for packaging database applications" was drafted by Sean Finney as the creator of dbconfig-common. The discussion on the document has died dow

Bug#837478: Static libraries - PIC or PIE?

2016-11-21 Thread Phillip Hellewell
On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 07:12:19PM -0700, Phillip Hellewell wrote: >>... >> - Now tries to link a few of the libraries statically (e.g., >> libicuuc.a). ld blows up with a bunch of relocation R_X86_64_32S, blah >> blah blah, recompile with

Bug#837478: Static libraries - PIC or PIE?

2016-11-21 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 07:12:19PM -0700, Phillip Hellewell wrote: >... > - Now tries to link a few of the libraries statically (e.g., > libicuuc.a). ld blows up with a bunch of relocation R_X86_64_32S, blah > blah blah, recompile with -fPIC errors. The error message is misleading, PIE is suf