"Bryn M. Reeves" <bmr@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 09/15/2010 05:06 PM, Robert Spanton wrote: >> So, would be acceptable to register requests for -static package >> variants as tickets on bugzilla? Or is there a better way to try to >> encourage people to generate these packages? > You might find the Fedora packaging guidelines for packaging static > libraries helps explain the rationale a bit more: The important point here is that there is a distro policy against static libraries (with only very narrow exceptions). Trying to get individual package maintainers to go against the policy isn't a helpful way to proceed. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel