On Fri Jun 22, 2018 01:34:49PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 12:45:07PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> > Package: clasp
> > Version: 3.3.3-3
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Tags: patch
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > the attached patch does three things:
> >
> > (1) Ship the static library in the package
> > (2) Make the package provide libclasp-dev (= ${binary:Version}), so
> > packages can depend on that,
> > in case we want to split it out
> > (3) makes clasp build with -fPIC, so we can link the static library into
> > shared libraries
> >
> > This will allow us to ship apt-solver-kalel[1] in Debian, and provide it as
> > a shared library that
> > we can load into an apt process to avoid the overhead from EDSP and/or make
> > it the default
> > solver.
>
> Or I guess preferably, build a shared library, and bump the soname on every
> new upstream
> release, or talk to upstream and see what they think about ABI stability.
I would prefer to ship a shared/static library + header files. Upstream
has promised to be ABI stable, and so far did a tremendous job. I will
take a look.
