Re: Another clarification of the static library packaging guidelines

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On 06/30/2010 10:09 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> There are dozens of -devel packages, which contain static libs only,
> but don't provide a virtual -static package.
>
> Many of them are OCaml (ocaml-*) and Haskell (ghc-*) packages.
>
> The Haskell packaging guidelines contain a section that seems to suggest
> that the packages need not provide a virtual -static package:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Haskell#Static_vs._Dynamic_Linking
>
> What about OCaml?
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:OCaml
> is not mentioning static libraries at all.
>
> What other exceptions exist?

Tcl allows static 'stub' libraries in the -devel subpackage.  See the 
last paragraph here:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Tcl

--Wart
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