> Of course, in a distribution you donât want all programs to statically
> link all libraries since that would defeat the purpose of having libraries
> but if the versioning is so fragile, we donât see an alternative.
Debian allows static linking. The problem is caused by the fact that
subsurface forked some libraries and made them incompatible, without changing
the name.
Debian, as a general rule, disallows duplicated source packages. But since the
incompatible forks retain the same name, they could never coexist within the
same machine with the original library.
This is what makes packaging impossible. Not the static linking.
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