On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 04:25:00PM +0100, Sebastian Rittau wrote: > The main aspect of this proposal is the removed requirement of > including static versions of each library in the corresponding -dev > package. Many modern libraries don't work well as a static library and > usage of static libraries should be deprecated except for a few > specific cases.
I'd be curious to know of an example of a "modern library" which doesn't work well when compiled statically. > This policy change would allow maintainers to decide for themselves, > whether a static version of their library is useful, [...] Whether linking against a static version of a library is useful may only be determined by the requirements of library's users, not the maintainer. --bod