Uniting to get upstreams to use system libraries

[Guillem Jover]

Hi!

On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 20:27:12 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> One of the basic guidelines we have in Fedora is that a package should
> not link against a local copy of a library.  Instead libraries should be
> included in the system and applications should link against that.[1]_

> I'd like to know if other distributions also consider separating
> libraries from applications to be a best practice.  If so, would you be
> willing to collaborate on getting upstreams to see our point of view?
> Things we can do are to write down our justifications for doing this,
> letting upstream know that it isn't just one distribution that feels
> this way, offering to help upstreams code alternatives, offering to help
> forward port applications to new versions of libraries, and getting best
> practice recommendations changed to reflect this

The Debian testing security team keeps track of embedded copies of
sources (including static linking and forks):

  <http://wiki.debian.org/EmbeddedCodeCopies>.

regards,
guillem