[Fedora-packaging] Static Library Policy Draft Changes

[Bill Nottingham]

Jesse Keating (jkeating at redhat.com) said: 
> For the case where you have some shared, some static with matching
> shared, and some static only:
> 
> If you put the static only in -devel, we can't reasonably detect all the
> things that link against the static library.  We'd have to investigate
> anything that BRs the -devel package.  If you put the static only in
> with the other statics in -static you then have all the statics in the
> chroot and run the risk that spot talks about of accidentally statically
> linking to things that have shared alternatives.

The only way this can happen (AFAIK) is if they're linked by:

- explicitly listing %{_libdir}/libfoo.a on the link line
- explicitly passing -Wl,-bstatic

Either of these things should be auditable.

Bill