https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=866032
Erik van Pienbroek erik-fedora@vanpienbroek.nl changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED Assignee|rjones@redhat.com |erik-fedora@vanpienbroek.nl
--- Comment #1 from Erik van Pienbroek erik-fedora@vanpienbroek.nl --- The commit your referring to dates back from the time when the Fedora MinGW toolchain was in its initial development phase where there was still quite of lot of experimenting going on and packaging guidelines were yet to be written. Back then the packages weren't added to Fedora yet.
As far as I know there hasn't been any real rationale for disabling the static libraries in this case so I don't see any problems with re-adding the static libraries for freetype in a separate subpackage (as is also done with various other mingw packages)