Hi! On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 20:27:12 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > One of the basic guidelines we have in Fedora is that a package should > not link against a local copy of a library. Instead libraries should be > included in the system and applications should link against that.[1]_
> I'd like to know if other distributions also consider separating > libraries from applications to be a best practice. If so, would you be > willing to collaborate on getting upstreams to see our point of view? > Things we can do are to write down our justifications for doing this, > letting upstream know that it isn't just one distribution that feels > this way, offering to help upstreams code alternatives, offering to help > forward port applications to new versions of libraries, and getting best > practice recommendations changed to reflect this The Debian testing security team keeps track of embedded copies of sources (including static linking and forks): <http://wiki.debian.org/EmbeddedCodeCopies>. regards, guillem _______________________________________________ Distributions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/distributions
