Florian Weimer <f...@deneb.enyo.de> wrote: >> #5 Declare GMP to be a system library. >> > (snip) > >> #5 was how Fedora looked at the OpenSSL library issue. Since Debian >> has another viewpoint on OpenSSL I somehow doubt we would use it for >> GMP. > > I would like to suggest to treat more libraries as eligible for the > system library exception within Debian.
The traditional interpretation as I understand it is that nothing Debian ships qualifies for the the system exception. This is because Debian ships everything together, and the system exception only applies for components that do not accompany the executable. Cheers, Walter Landry
