retitle 286937 Ode should have a stable ABI and provide a dynamic library severity 286937 wishlist tags 286937 - wontfix thanks
Coin, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Oh, I indeed failed to notice that libode-dev provided > /usr/lib/libode-pic.a. In that case, I don't think there's any problem with > what the libode-dev package is doing. Note that keeping a non-pic version of ode is only useful if you need to link with another non-pic object, which should only happen if this is non-free sofware, or because of minor performance difference, but this is Debian not Gentoo, am i right ? As the linker is not capable to handle cases where a pic dynamic library link with a non-pic static one on few architectures, as the ode maintainer is willing to follow this not-so-good policy requirement, and because i cannot remove the use of ode in the application i am packaging, i am obliged to add a silly patch to use the -pic static library. I won't maintain such a dirty upstream source modification for long. Ode was created in 2001, and now that several years have passed, should be able to provide a stable ABI and provide a shared library. So i think we could ask upstream to make some efforts. Using such static-only libraries are a pain to manage, and should only be used as a temporary solution. That's why i am modifying my request, thus changing severity and removing the wontfix tag. -- Marc DequÃnes (Duck)
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