Bug#637758: Distributing static libraries

[Fabian Greffrath]

Am 15.08.2011 09:42, schrieb Reinhard Tartler:
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 08:55:47 (CEST), Fabian Greffrath wrote:
>
>> Am 15.08.2011 03:48, schrieb Andres Mejia:
>>> We could make these users build the libraries themselves, but then
>>> they would also need to build all the build dependencies as well for
>>> the library they need. This can be quite a burden on various
>>
>> He? Why would I have to recompile a library's build-dependencies in
>> order to create a static library from it?
>
> Because in order to link an application statically, each and every
> dependent (static) library needs to be available as well.

Sure, but that's not required to *build* a static library and 
furthermore not an issue that we can address in our library packages.