Re: Bits from the Testing Security team

Nico Golde escreveu:
> Hi Francesco,
> * Francesco P. Lovergine <[email protected]> [2007-10-15 16:05]:
>   
>> On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 11:20:02AM +0200, Nico Golde wrote:
>>     
>>> Yes true but in most cases the code base is nearly the same 
>>> and we can check this without knowing ;)
>>>
>>>       
>>>> I wonder if in those special cases an Embed: <source> tag could be added in
>>>> debian/control to help tracking things.
>>>>         
>>> That would be a nice thing, also if this would include 
>>> information if the code is really included or just 
>>> statically linked against it.
>>>       
>> Well, I would consider statically linking a non embedded (i.e. a packaged) 
>> library a bug... Are there known cases where this is a required condition?
>>     
>
> Yes, dpkg for example links statically against libbz2 and zlib just to 
> pick a famous example.
> Kind regards
> Nico
>   

So ... do as i say, don't do as i do !!!

kind regards

Luis Matos