Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Let's just recap the facts, in case there was confusion about it ... > > (1) The default remains to provide dynamic libraries. There's no > discussion on this point, because even if I thought it was a good idea > to change (which I don't), Fedora policy would prevent it. > > (2) IMHO there is no realistic chance to change Fedora policy, > although you are welcome to try. > > (3) Fedora policy allows static libraries to be provided in *-static > subpackages. > > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Packaging_Static_Libraries > > (4) *-static subpackages don't happen by magic. You have to find > someone to do this work for you, or do it yourself. > > (5) Post your patches to this list, for the usual review / submission > process.
Alright, next week I'll try to build libz-static and xerces-static (I personally need these 2 packages :-) One more question: Somebody in this thread mentioned that an exception could be made for mingw packages, so that we won't need separate -static packages. This will be (a) less work for maintainers (b) IMHO more convenient for users Do you think it's realistic ? > > Hope that's clear. > > Rich. > _______________________________________________ fedora-mingw mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-mingw
