That section of the documentation has to do with the *library* being
designed for embedded use, not the *upstream source* designing around
embedding a library. It's referring to libraries such as some elements
of the GNU toolchain, which are specifically intended to be embedded.

This is a case where Debian (and, by inheritance, Ubuntu) has made a
deliberate choice to override the wishes of upstream. The fact that we
have multiple Ubuntu releases with unsafe embedded libraries is just
proof that embedding libraries is a bad idea.

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