Bug#392362: [PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 01:00:39AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> + <footnote>
> + Having multiple copies of the same code in Debian is
> + inefficient, often creates either static linking or shared
> + library conflicts, and, most importantly, increases the
> + difficulty of handling security vulnerabilities in the shared
> + code.
Perhaps "common code" or "duplicated code" instead of "shared code", to
avoid ambiguity wrt shared libraries?
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