Bug#168435: debian-policy: Remove the requirement to install static libraries
* Brendan O'Dea
| On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 04:25:00PM +0100, Sebastian Rittau wrote:
| > The main aspect of this proposal is the removed requirement of
| > including static versions of each library in the corresponding -dev
| > package. Many modern libraries don't work well as a static library and
| > usage of static libraries should be deprecated except for a few
| > specific cases.
|
| I'd be curious to know of an example of a "modern library" which doesn't
| work well when compiled statically.
libc6 fucks up NSS modules, AIUI.
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