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[Lars Uebernickel <lars@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Statically linking gtk+ is uncommon and discouraged by gtk+ developers
(see "Extra Configuration Options" in [1]). Also, I don't think we
should increase the package size for such an uncommon a use case.

Please compile gtk+ yourself if you want to link your application to it
statically.

[1] https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk-building.html

** Changed in: gdk-pixbuf (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Won't Fix

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1101157

Title:
  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev unusable for static builds

Status in gdk-pixbuf package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  The package does not provide a static version of library.

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