Re: static libs ... again

[Konstantin Ryabitsev <icon fedoraproject org>]

Quentin Spencer wrote:
> So, not too long ago someone asked why I still had static libs in one of 
> my packages since they are "banned" or at least strongly discouraged, so 
> I started removing them from my packages. All of the libraries I 
> maintain are math libraries, so security concerns are a non-issue. After 
> removing the static libs from fftw-devel, it took less than 24 hours to 
> get a bug report asking for them back. See 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=181897 for the 
> reasoning.

It seems theirs is a rather specific and unique case. Should we change 
policy to accommodate corner cases like that?

Regards,
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Konstantin Ryabitsev
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