The changelog for libmpg123-dev says: mpg123 (1.13.7-3) experimental; urgency=low * Enable LFS aliases, attempt to fix FTBFS on kfreebsd-i386. * Drop static library. * Improve ARM CPUs optimizations. -- Alessio Treglia <alessio@debian.org> Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:13:02 +0200 Why has the static library been dropped? urs