Bug#970715: libucx0: Not installable in unstable

Alastair McKinstry alastair.mckinstry at sceal.ie
Tue Sep 22 13:00:57 BST 2020


Hi Graham

Thanks.

On 22/09/2020 12:20, Graham Inggs wrote:
> Hi Alastair
>
> It seems that packages should statically link libbfd and not use the
> shared libbfd.
>
> See the package description of binutils-dev [1]:
>
> Package: binutils-dev (2.35.1-1)
> GNU binary utilities (BFD development files)
>
> This package includes header files and static libraries necessary to
> build programs which use the GNU BFD library, which is part of
> binutils. Note that building Debian packages which depend on the
> shared libbfd is Not Allowed.
>
> Regards
> Graham
>
>
> [1] https://packages.debian.org/unstable/binutils-dev
>
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