Bug#532690: [Openal-devel] ALURE 1.0 Debian packages

[Andres Mejia]

On Monday 15 June 2009 01:09:51 Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> Andres Mejia <mcitadel at gmail.com> writes:
> >> [1] good reasons include massive performance gains, extra features, etc.
> >
> > It's merely for convenience to users.
> >
> > Who's "we" by the way? I see various static libraries on my system alone,
> > including static libs for libc, zlib, libbz2, and freealut, so I'm
> > guessing "we" is not Debian.
>
> Well, I'm perhaps overexaggerating here.
>
> For libc, zlib and libbz2 I do see uses cases, and I'm fairly sure that
> there are some other packages that link statically. At least for these
> libraries, I can see why users really expect to have the static
> libraries around.
>
> does this apply as well to alut, openal and alure as well? If yes, then
> shipping alure.a is no problem. if not, I'd recommend to spare the
> headaches here.

What headaches? Forgive my lack of imagination here. Right now I don't see a 
reason why static libraries should be removed.

-- 
Regards,
Andres