Re: Question regarding policy (11.2)
There may also be cases where, from a security
perspective, it may be preferable to statically
link an executable so that there are fewer
potential points of compromise. Things like
forensic tools, where you might be examining a
system and you are not sure what may have been
compromised.
Doesn't mean that every library requires a static
version, but there might be a requirement for
a carefully picked few to be mandated.
Cheers,
Berin
>
> From: Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au>
> Subject: Re: Question regarding policy (11.2)
> Date: 07/02/2003 14:42:06
> To: debian-policy@lists.debian.org
>
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:56:48PM +0000, James Troup wrote:
> > Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> writes:
> > > However disks are cheap enough that it seems reasonable to ask
> > > people doing development to go buy a big disk.
> > It's not about disks so much as bandwidth. Disk may be cheap, but
> > bandwidth isn't, at lesast not universally. I've also no idea who
> > would want or need static libraries in this day and age, but maybe I'm
> > missing something obvious.
>
> LSB compliant programs have to either be statically linked, or distributed
> with the dynamic versions, of all the libraries they use, bar a few. Having
> the .a's available for that may be useful.
>
> Cheers,
> aj
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