Package: plib1.8.4c2
Version: 1.8.4-8
Severity: normal

Since Debian policy version 3.5.7.0 (from 2002), it has been permitted to
make static-only library packages without shared libraries. The current
exceptions are listed in Policy section 8.3, where plib might fall under
exception 2 and definitely falls under exception 3 ("libraries which are
explicitly intended to be available only in static form by their upstream
author(s)").

Since plib was meant to be used as a static library, and it's allowed
in Debian now, perhaps it's time to drop that shared-library hack.

(It might make maintenance of the FlightGear packages easier, too;
I could drop my own shared-library hacks.)

You could do that when you package 1.8.5 (which is out now).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages plib1.8.4c2 depends on:
ii  freeglut3                    2.4.0-6     OpenGL Utility Toolkit
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]     7.0.3~rc2-1 A free implementation of the OpenG

plib1.8.4c2 recommends no packages.

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