Hi release-team,
it might not be in violation of Debian policy to not provide static libraries, but I would still consider this as important with freeze-exception because it is easily fixable, does not introduce anything new library wise, and it prevents successful using of -dev package to link static binaries (which is not common, but still needed sometimes).
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=693939