Ahoy, The binutils-dev package description does say "This package includes header files and static libraries necessary to build programs which use the GNU BFD library, which is part of binutils. Note that building Debian packages which depend on the shared libbfd is Not Allowed."
I'm very curious about that remark at the end. Why are Debian packages prohibited from using this shared library in particular? Is it prescribed by Debian Policy? I really can't think of any problem. I am interested for the sake of cross-Binutils packages like my binutils-sh-elf. If any of libbfd, libctf, and/or libsframe are target-independent in their functionality (and I believe they all are), then using those instead of rebuilding them all over sounds nice and would save disk space. Even ABI compatibility shouldn't be a concern; if necessary my package could enforce a dependency on libbinutils for a release version equal to that of binutils-source, so there would never be any drift.
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