On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 08:08:18PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: [Philippe Troin wants all static libraries in Debian to be shared, especially the ones I maintain] > Changing the static X libraries to be dynamic requires recompiling all the > packages that use them too. > > Working out whether the X libraries should be static or shared is > something that should be done by upstream and the maintainer, who're > the ones who have to make sure that whatever solution is found works, > and who have to support it in the future. > > Additionally, libraries with unstable APIs and ABIs are very painful > to work with (on a distribution level) when they're dynamically linked: > witness the number of packages not compiled with the right C++ libraries > for example (around 50 on most arches, which is 5% to 10% of all of them), > or the problems the steadily increasing libgal soname causes (half the > i386 gal packages are against an old version), or similar examples. Anthony, http://www.angryflower.com/pathof.gif (You're Bob.) -- G. Branden Robinson | What influenced me to atheism was Debian GNU/Linux | reading the Bible cover to cover. branden@debian.org | Twice. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- J. Michael Straczynski
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