Re: Question regarding policy (11.2)

[Josip Rodin <joy@gkvk.hr>]

On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 02:00:09PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> FWIW, I'm not at all against splitting out -static packages on a
> case-by-case basis, as used to be done for X's libs. But there's nothing
> in policy to prohibit that anyway.

Section 11.2 says:

     In general, libraries must have a shared version in the library
     package and a static version in the development package.

Since it says "the development package", not "a development package", it
must mean libfoo-dev, in which case putting it in another package is a
violation of a "must" directive.

OTOH if you meant that packages can violate anything in policy on a
case-by-case basis, then yeah, the policy doesn't prohibit that.
But if Policy's directives have exceptions so obvious, then they could
probably use some fixing.

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