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 16:47:20 +0200 Message-ID: <85ibvpF2ikU1@mid.individual.net> References: <8b775424-6d49-4fc1-8f9d-f1837d75371e@e21g2000vbl.googlegroups.com> <85i738F41eU1@mid.individual.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Trace: individual.net Tq17BbupLH/YVA4/V1F5DQ7nMbXRfDtxnRl9Au9ZEsN35wnxPr Cancel-Lock: sha1:qym31DkwkDUYsV5WKpTKMVyxpls= User-Agent: KNode/4.4.2 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:11768 Date: 2010-05-19T16:47:20+02:00 List-Id: 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 -- Bj�rn Persson PGP key A88682FD