[Debichem-devel] Bug#1058868: Bug#1058868: gemmi: Please build shared library

[Andrius Merkys]

Hi,

On 2023-12-17 11:31, Yadd wrote:
> currently src:gemmi builds gemmi and gemmi-dev. This doesn't permit to
> build any software using gemmi-dev without static linking.
> 
> The proposed patch adds package libgemmi1 which contains the shared
> library.

I looked into the shared library provided by gemmi v0.6.4 (newer 
upstream release than in your patch). This version of gemmi builds the 
shared library by default. However, the produced shared library does not 
carry a soversion, thus according to Debian principles it is not 
suitable to be packaged as public shared library, alas. Thus static 
linking is the only option for now.

Best wishes,
Andrius