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[Michael Zanetti <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 30 September 2013 09:34:02 David Barth wrote:
> Le 30/09/2013 09:26, Michael Zanetti a écrit :
> >> Additionally, some libraries in Ubuntu apparently don't ship static
> >> files in their -dev packages. Once again, we could build those
> >> statically by hand and include them but that's the kind of thing I was
> >> hoping to avoid as an outcome of this discussion.
> > 
> > As "not having to worry about dependencies" is the whole point of click
> > packages I'm afraid that won't be the outcome of the discussion.
> 
> I think Scott was thinking about /build dependencies/, not runtime ones.
> 
> Having pre-built static libraries avaiable in -dev packages would
> simplify the development of applications using libraries absent from the
> SDK, but still part of the Ubuntu archive (main, universe, etc.).

Yep, shipping static libs with -dev packages would probably be the cleanest 
way to deal with this. Probably not for all packages, but at least for the 
some (most I guess).

Br,
Michael