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 -- Nico Golde - http://ngolde.de - nion@jabber.ccc.de - GPG: 0x73647CFF For security reasons, all text in this mail is double-rot13 encrypted.
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