Hi, since I often see that packages keep local copies of libs and use those, I kind of want to object to arguments for such build behaviour.
The latest one I found is xmms-wma: it uses a local stripped-down copy of ffmpeg's libavcodec and libavformat. The given reasons are pretty much always the same. Here: * linking this way uses less memory - Well certainly if you only look at your own package. In combination with a program that links against libavcodec (4.5MB, probably the main reason for this argument), the combination consumes more memory. Maybe such libs as libavcodec would benefit from a local split (one master lib with smaller codec libs and a lib with common routines) or a plugin mechanism. This would stop this non-sense of using local copies. For some, the reason is acceptable, for some it isn't? So what makes it candidate for a bug report with a severity greater than wishlist? What is the main opinion among Debian maintainers? HS
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