On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 03:07:45PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > Daniel, I would suggest that you don't build a shared package if the > upstream is not supporting shared libs. There is more about shared libraries > one has to care about - for example interface changes. If upstream > does not use the code as shared library they will not care much if > binary compatibility is broken and you will probably end up with doing > a new libdvx.y.z package for each upstream release which is not pretty > IMHO. > > I think policy needs a change there. Small libraries should be static > if you gain nothing by making them shared. Agreed. I just filed a wishlist bug against debian-policy. Best regards, Daniel.
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