[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#544976: samtools: Static library built with -fPIC.

[Charles Plessy]

Package: samtools
Version: 0.1.5c-2
Severity: serious

This package is compiled with -fPIC in order to enable building of
libbio-samtools-perl, which will soon be submitted to our archive.

After discussion on debian-devel at l.d.o, several developers raised
concerns about the security implications of building against static
libraries. I therefore open this bug to prevent the migration of
samtools to testing until a shared version of libbam is released, in
order to avoid causing problems to the release and security teams.

See http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20090830025658.GJ9074@kunpuu.plessy.org

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Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan