Hi Paul! So static libs present in packages like popt are remnants of the past and the general practice now is to discourage shipping all kinds of static libraries unless it is Go/OCaml… as mentioned in this wiki page?
I looked at it before, but I try understanding what is considered best practices now. -- Vasyl Gello June 1, 2020 1:57:09 PM UTC, Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> написав(-ла): >On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 1:42 PM Vasyl Gello wrote: > >> I often link software statically, especially targeting Android. >> So I guess keeping static library won't hurt as part of -dev >> package. > >Where dynamic libraries are available there are usually only downsides >to static libraries, in Debian we try to not distribute static >libraries unless there is a good reason. > >https://wiki.debian.org/StaticLinking > >-- >bye, >pabs > >https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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