On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 12:24:28PM -0500, Micah Anderson wrote: > The package description for binutils-dev says the following: > >Description: The GNU binary utilities (BFD development files) This > > package includes header files and static libraries necessary to build > > programs which use the GNU BFD library, which is part of binutils. > > Note that building Debian packages which depend on the shared libbfd > > is Not Allowed. > I see this in the binutils-dev package description, however I dont see > it anywhere else, not in the policy, not in lintian/linda checks, not > on any mailing lists.... I see a couple of people on debian-devel > asking (a couple years ago) what the deal is with this, but no > informative responses. Does anyone know *why* this is and why this > isn't documented somewhere more visible? Because libbfd does not have a stable ABI suitable for public use, nor is there currently a way to express a dependency on this library without things breaking (you can't depend on "binutils" and have any guarantee of getting the correct lib). -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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