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. ftpmaster currently requires that any statically linked binaries be documented with a Lintian override. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686-bigmem (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash debian-policy depends on no packages. debian-policy recommends no packages. Versions of packages debian-policy suggests: ii doc-base 0.9.5 utilities to manage online documen -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
