Bug#1038117: util-linux: resume building of static libs

2023-06-17 Thread Leo Antunes
Hi, On Thu, 15 Jun 2023 17:38:27 +0200 Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > For Debian we just do the Debian thing: do not ship static libraries > except for very narrow within-Debian-use-cases. Don't wanna come off too abrasive here, but: $ apt-file search -lx '^/usr/lib/.*\.a$' | sort | uniq | wc -l 68

Bug#1038117: util-linux: resume building of static libs

2023-06-15 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
Hi, * Leo Antunes : > It would be great if we could either re-introduce them or at least add > a comment explaining the reasoning behind the removal (to avoid future > me bumping into this again ;)) For Debian we just do the Debian thing: do not ship static libraries except for very narrow within

Bug#1038117: util-linux: resume building of static libs

2023-06-15 Thread Leo Antunes
Source: util-linux Version: 2.38.1-5+b1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainers, During the bump to dh13 a couple of years back the static libs were removed from all *-dev packages[0]. This change has the unfortunate side-effect of making it impossible to actually use the libraries in static builds (e.