Bug#944785: pufferfish wants to link with twopaco and ntcard

[Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>]

Hi Andrius,

Am Mon, Oct 03, 2022 at 10:19:41AM +0300 schrieb Andrius Merkys:
> twopaco has entered testing (yay!), thus I gave its reverse dependency,
> pufferfish (ITP bug #944785), a look. pufferfish carries embedded copies
> of twopaco and ntcard with a modified build system to create static (or
> is it shared?) libraries for these two and then links pufferfish with
> them. For Debian twopaco and ntcard have been un-embedded from
> pufferfish and packaged as separate binary packages instead. However,
> they do not build neither shared nor static libraries, just executables.
> 
> I think we can get around by patching twopaco and ntcard builds to
> include static libraries in their binary packages. Does this sound right?

My main motivation to start ntcard and twopaco packages was to avoid
code duplication in pufferfish.  I admit it seems I faild in doing this
sensibly to forget creating a library package.  Simply do whatever
brings you forward with pufferfish and fix what I failed to do.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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