On Tuesday, 16 December 2014 at 16:33, Matthias Clasen wrote:
I don't think you can really force a package maintainer to
provide a
static library for code the is very explicitly not meant to be shared.
Just because others decided to ignore that wish and copied it anyway.
The only outcomes I can see if this is being forced is a) us loosing
package maintainers who are fed up with this or b) upstream starting to
change internal apis every release, just to make copying this code so
difficult that it becomes impractical.
In this sad case, the solution is to request a copylib exception from
the FPC covering this and other "not meant to be shared" libraries.
Regards,
Dominik
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