Bug#555980: debian-policy: No policy on statically linked binaries

[Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 04:43:18PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Version: 3.8.3.0
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Unless I'm missing something, and I did a text search through Policy,
> Policy is currently silent on the topic of statically linked binaries
> other than a brief mention in a footnote on convenience copies of code.
> 
> I believe we should say that they're discouraged in general and are
> normally only appropriate for shared library maintenance and recovery
> tools (ldconfig, etc.) or for security tools.

I agree to that.

But that should not mean we should discourage shipping static
libraries.


Kurt