Re: Question regarding policy (11.2)

[James Troup <james@nocrew.org>]

Josip Rodin <joy@gkvk.hr> writes:

> 	  The static version of a library must be compiled without the
> 	  <tt>-fPIC</tt> option. It must be placed in the development
> 	  package, normally <package>lib*-dev</package>, but if its size
> 	  exceeds the size of the rest of the files in the development
> 	  package, it can be placed in a separate package called
> 	  <package>lib*-static-dev</package>. It is recommended that the
> 	  <package>lib*-dev</package> packages then declare a
> 	  <tt>Suggests</tt> or <tt>Recommends</tt> relationship to their
> 	  respective <package>lib*-static-dev</package> package.

Can we at least also add an option to (or preferably replace this
with) dropping the static lib altogether at the maintainers
discretion?  (Unrealistic) worst case this could introduce over 1000
new packages which would be less than ideal...

-- 
James