Re: Bug#555980: debian-policy: No policy on statically linked binaries
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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.
When packages are statically linked there should also be some
documentation of which libraries they're statically linked with,
because security updates to packages which they statically link with
may also require security updates in the resultant packages.
Don Armstrong
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