[arch-general] static libraries in packages
Timothée Ravier
siosm99 at gmail.com
Wed May 14 11:20:26 EDT 2014
On 14/05/2014 13:51, Christian Hesse wrote:
> Is it possible to fix binutils testsuite?
>
> Remember the security flaws in zlib? Does anybody know what package has been
> built against static zlib?
>
>> https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/mupdf&id=c34f53eeb8efd6b4b033c2fdc58d0a329efdeeef
>
> This brings the static libraries back, but there is no reason.
>
> libmariadbclient ships with static libraries because a package from AUR
> (neko) requires it. I think anybody should fix neko, but shipping official
> packages with static libraries in this situation is just stupid.
>
> Removing static libraries (and keeping them away!) should be treated more
> strict.
Please file bug reports. One for each package.
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Timothée Ravier
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