Comment 6 for bug 8111

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In , Steinar H. Gunderson (sesse) wrote : Re: Bug#272127: freecdb: does not provide a shared library

On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 05:03:26PM +0300, Tommi Virtanen wrote:
> The package consists of two static libraries, each one _less than 4kB_
> in size. I see no point in making shared libraries of them, unless a
> really compelling technical argument proves I _must_. And even then I'm
> much happier just forcing people to migrate to tinycdb, a cleaner
> reimplementation of the same idea, called tinycdb; any project that
> isn't dead itself, and still depends on freecdb, should migrate to
> tinycdb. TinyCDB even gets updated every once in a while.

In that case, please provide _pic versions, so freecdb can be used within
shared libraries. Either that, or vpopmail will probably have to be removed
(which is not unlikely, of course).

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