Bug 179663 - dev-libs/libassuan installs only static libraries
Bug#: 179663 Product:  Gentoo Linux Version: unspecified Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux Status: RESOLVED Severity: normal Priority: P2
Resolution: FIXED Assigned To: crypto@gentoo.org Reported By: flameeyes@gentoo.org
Component: Ebuilds
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Summary: dev-libs/libassuan installs only static libraries
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Status Whiteboard: 
Opened: 2007-05-24 16:58 0000
Description:   Opened: 2007-05-24 16:58 0000 
As per summary, libassuan installs only .a (archive, static) libraries, rather
than shared objects. This is usually against policy; even if the usage of
static library is reasoned, there are packages depending on libassuan at
runtime, but being only static, they should only depend on it at build time:

[18:54] <Flameeyes> !rrdep libassuan
[18:54] <jeeves> dev-libs/libassuan <- app-crypt/dirmngr app-crypt/gnupg
app-crypt/gnupg-pkcs11-scd

HTH,
Diego

------- Comment #1 From Alon Bar-Lev (RETIRED) 2007-05-24 17:04:22 0000 ------- 
There was a discussion of this in upstream.

Thread at:
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2006-December/023462.html

What do you recommend to do?

------- Comment #2 From Diego E. 'Flameeyes' Pettenò 2007-05-25 10:23:37 0000 ------- 
Debian has a policy much similar to us, so I'd say follow whatever they are
doing; in this case, they are not using a shared library either, so until
libassuan devs release something that is stable and supported as shared object,
libassuan should be moved from RDEPEND to DEPEND.

------- Comment #3 From Alon Bar-Lev (RETIRED) 2007-06-13 08:09:10 0000 ------- 
Fixed.
Done waiting.
Thanks.