On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 01:38:11PM +, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Static libraries are useful to users who want to build binaries and
> then ship them about without all the library clobber. [...]
>
> Overall I do think the costs of providing the static libraries, even
> where a shared library is
Hello,
On 28 January 2016 at 14:38, Ian Jackson
wrote:
> Andreas Tille writes ("Statically linked library in libdevel packages? (Was:
> Status of teem package (packaging moved from svn to git))"):
>> I came across this question since policy says (see link above)
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On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 06:03:26PM +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> Imho, if static libraries, are shipped we should be conservative about
> them (e.g. do it pretty much for libc only to compile minimal
> freestanding bootloaders and that's about
On 28.01.2016 16:06, Bas Wijnen wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 01:38:11PM +, Ian Jackson wrote:
>> Overall I do think the costs of providing the static libraries, even
>> where a shared library is also provided, are justifiable.
>
> Agreed. We obviously shouldn't drop shared libraries;
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On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 01:38:11PM +, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Andreas Tille writes ("Statically linked library in libdevel packages? (Was:
> Status of teem package (packaging moved from svn to git))"):
> > I came across this question since policy
On 28/01/16 16:27, Christian Seiler wrote:
> So unless there is an _undue_ maintenance burden for building a static
> version of a given library
... or a reason why it's useless. For instance,
src:telepathy-mission-control-5 ships libmission-control-plugins, which
could easily be built static but
[Moving this thread to debian-devel ...]
Hi,
On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 12:46:56PM +, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 08:59:27AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > >
> > > wait, why would you want to build a static library?
> > > A static library is bad in the context of a linux
Andreas Tille writes ("Statically linked library in libdevel packages? (Was:
Status of teem package (packaging moved from svn to git))"):
> I came across this question since policy says (see link above) that
> static libraries are *usually* provided. I do not question Mattia's
> arguing but if
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