Re: Packaging of static libraries

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>, 2016-04-14, 18:06:
> It would be helpful if we could check if a dynamic binary is linked to 
> a static library from another package; but I'm not aware of any 
> reliable method to implement such check.

Maybe we could exploit the fact that static libraries are normally 
stripped, unlike the freshly built code. So if there's large amount of 
code that doesn't have corresponding debugging information in the 
-dbgsym package, it might be because the binary is linked to a static 
library.

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Jakub Wilk