linking statically against dietlibc: a blocker?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 12:17 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>>>> "RC" == Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> writes:
> 
> RC> In addition to all this, another issue has popped up, which IMO
> RC> renders shipping static libs as part of Fedora very questionable
> RC> (to say the least)
> RC> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=209316
> 
> Surely this is a bug in RPM, 
RH's rpm maintainers don't seem to agree, they closed it "WONTFIX" :(

> though, and shouldn't block otherwise
> acceptable packages.
Well, the resulting debuginfo package was empty and the resulting
packages were not source-level debugable via debuginfo*.rpm.
To me this sufficed to block a package due to bugs in its
infrastructure. If GCC was misscompiling a particular package you
probably would have done the same.

Worse, more general, meanwhile, I am almost certain all static libs are
not source-level debugable with debuginfo rpms due to this bug in rpm. I
do not want to block further packages due to this, nevertheless this to
me is a severe bug, further decreasing my willingness to tolerate static
libs and static linkage during reviews.

Ralf