Re: One united Ada policy for all Linux distributions?

["Björn Persson" <bjorn@xn--rombobjrn-67a.se>]

Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> On Wed, 19 May 2010 15:23:51 +0200, Bj�rn Persson wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Isn't Debian's dev = Fedora's devel?

I'm not sure, but I think there are static libraries in all of Debian's -dev 
packages, not just in the Ada packages, so it's more like Fedora's -devel 
and -static combined. Fedora's -devel packages normally contain only shared 
libraries.

You can read the policy here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Packaging_Static_Libraries

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