proposal to remove static libs from -devel packages for FC5

[Jeremy Katz]

On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 20:08 -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> Furthermore would anyone be averse to the idea of making it policy to 
> explicitly note in spec files when static libs are used in such a way 
> that it is easy to do an automated search?  Something simple like:
> 
> # Static Lib: libfoo

This is then dependent on every packager knowing for certain every
static lib that gets linked.  I don't think that can be counted on...

> It is otherwise a huge PITA when a security hole is discovered and we 
> need to sweep the entire distro for static copies, like the huge zlib 
> mess we had a while back.

... which means that we'd still have to do this and thus I'm not sure if
it buys us much/anything.

Jeremy