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On trečiadienis 24 Rugpjūtis 2011 09:19:17 Romain Beauxis wrote: > Package: libtag1-dev > Version: 1.7-1 > Severity: important > > Hi! > > This package should also ship the static .a library. Why is it so strong as 'should'? According to what? On the same basis you could argue that all libraries in Debian should do this but you won't get very far with this reasoning. Debian *prefers* shared libraries because you can provide sane security support for them. > It can be enabled by passing -DENABLE_STATIC=ON at configure-time > and adding the proper PIC variables to CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS. So it is a non-default upstream configuration and additional *non-trivial* complication in packaging which I would rather avoid unless there is a *really* good reason. Right now I'm tempted to tag this wontfix but you still can to change my mind. -- Modestas Vainius <[email protected]>
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