Bug#93975: Make shared libs non-mandatory.
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 05:29:20PM +0200, Daniel Kobras wrote:
>
> I have prepared a package of libdv, a library to de- and encode digital
> video data, and noted that it violates current policy: The x86 version
> of the library contains optimized assembler routines that are not
> relocatable. Therefore, the lib on x86 won't build as a shared library,
> which is in conflict with the first paragraph of debian-policy sect. 11.2,
> mandating also shared versions of each lib. I have contacted upstream
> about this, and they prefer to keep libdv static-only for performance
> reasons. When I brought up this issue on debian-devel, it was suggested
> I build a libdv-dev package only across all archs and request a policy
> change allowing static-only uploads as well in special cases.
>
I maintain libnet this way, it only ships as a static lib. So I have a
libnet0-dev package. Someday I hope to have a shared version. My libmad
package used to only be static, but now I have both.
Not really sure we need policy to approve this.
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