Re: Library packaging and missing .a file

[Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@wrar.name>]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 08:57:48AM +0200, Christian Kastner wrote:
> > I have got another problem. Libstrophe only provides .a file, no .so,
> > so basically it should provide only a -dev package. Is it ok to
> > package only -dev, or is it agains policies?
> 
> Not that I'm aware of, but I very much question the usefulness of having
> only a -dev package within the Debian archive.
> 
> If I were you, I'd simply patch upstream's build configuration to build
> a shared library as well (and then forward the patch). Your upstream is
> using autotools, so that should be trivial.
That requires maintaining ABI.

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