Re: Bits from the Testing Security team

[Luis Matos <gass@otiliamatos.ath.cx>]

Nico Golde escreveu:
> Hi Francesco,
> * Francesco P. Lovergine <frankie@debian.org> [2007-10-15 16:05]:
>   
> > On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 11:20:02AM +0200, Nico Golde wrote:
> >     
> > > Yes true but in most cases the code base is nearly the same 
> > > and we can check this without knowing ;)
> > >
> > >       
> > > > I wonder if in those special cases an Embed: <source> tag could be added in
> > > > debian/control to help tracking things.
> > > >         
> > > That would be a nice thing, also if this would include 
> > > information if the code is really included or just 
> > > statically linked against it.
> > >       
> > Well, I would consider statically linking a non embedded (i.e. a packaged) 
> > library a bug... Are there known cases where this is a required condition?
> >     
>
> Yes, dpkg for example links statically against libbz2 and zlib just to 
> pick a famous example.
> Kind regards
> Nico
>   

So ... do as i say, don't do as i do !!!

kind regards

Luis Matos