This one time, at band camp, Charles Plessy said: > Le Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 08:06:09PM -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 11:56:58AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > as per Policy § 10.2, I would like to know if everybody agrees if I > > > change the > > > libbam-dev package to compile libbam.a with -fPIC. > > > What are the reasons for not shipping a shared library? That's always > > preferred over use of -fPIC for static libs, so we should examine the > > reasons for this first. > > I forgot to mention that the upstream sources do not build a shared library.
Is there some reason you as a maintainer can't? If the library has no API or ABI stability, that might be a good reason not to (although it's a better reason to talk to upstream about why they have to do so), but otherwise, why not just do it? Cheers, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sg...@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
