Comment 32 for bug 8111

Message-ID: <20060104084517.27431.qmail@0a5e3f0f6c0724.315fe32.mid.smarden.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 09:45:17 +0100
From: Gerrit Pape <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: freecdb: does not provide a shared library

On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 06:14:27PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> Package: freecdb
> Version: 0.62
> Severity: serious
> Justification: Policy 8
>
> freecdb does not provide a shared library, even though policy requires
> it to do so. This leads to bugs like #243007 (making vpopmail RC-buggy)
> and possibly others.
>
> If there is some good reason for freecdb not to be a shared library
> (Policy 8.3), at the very least there should be a freecdb_pic version,
> but I can't see any such reason.

cdb is intended to be available only available in static form by
upstream; this is a valid exception as per policy 8.3. The actual
problem is (was?) in vpopmail's packaging.

Thanks, Gerrit.