From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,a19f7b11143e52d2 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn?= Persson Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: One united Ada policy for all Linux distributions? Followup-To: comp.lang.ada Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 15:23:51 +0200 Message-ID: <85i738F41eU1@mid.individual.net> References: <8b775424-6d49-4fc1-8f9d-f1837d75371e@e21g2000vbl.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Trace: individual.net edBQPmkqaM3D63JYIgODQg15If7T3ynDGNUjmmzQV3Vyya13G7 Cancel-Lock: sha1:IBmBuuCWKzoBoNVNfLEEsPllbIk= User-Agent: KNode/4.4.2 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:11763 Date: 2010-05-19T15:23:51+02:00 List-Id: Another difference, in addition to the ones Ludovic mentioned, is that the Debian policy requires static libraries in the -dev packages, while Fedora strongly discourages packaging static libraries and mandates that they be kept in -static packages, separate from the dynamic libraries in the -devel packages, if they really must be included. Obviously we can't have one policy to rule them all, but we could certainly talk to each other and try to be compatible enough that we don't cause unnecessary trouble for users. -- Bj�rn Persson PGP key A88682FD