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

[Yadd]

Control: tags -1 + wontfix

On 12/19/23 12:43, Andrius Merkys wrote:
> 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

Noted, thank you very much for your time!

Cheers,
Yadd