Monday·09·March·2015
Do we need a zsh-static package in Debian? //at 11:17 //by abe
Dear Planet Debian,
the Debian Zsh Packaging Team (consisting of Michael Prokop, Frank Terbeck, Richard Hartmann and myself) wonders if there’s still a reason to build and ship a zsh-static package in Debian.
There are multiple reasons:
- None of us packagers really use it. (A weak reason, yes.)
- Low popcon: “installed” peak at ca. 150, decreasing; “vote” peak at ca. 40, decreasing as well.
The statically compiled Zsh has some annoying restrictions (#354631 et al) for over 9 years now, which only can be fixed if some other packages change:
To cite Clint Adams, long time Debian Zsh package maintainer:
the problem is that user/group lookups are disabled in the -static build because glibc’s NSS ABI is unstable and static binaries still need to load NSS modules dynamically.
One solution here would be to compile against dietlibc, but for that we’d need an ncurses library built against dietlibc (#471208), too.
So we ask you, the Planet Debian reader:
Do you need Debian’s zsh-static package?
If so, please send an e-mail to us Debian Zsh Maintainers <pkg-zsh-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org> and state that you use zsh-static, and, if you want, please also state why or how you’re using it.
Thanks in advance! Mika, Frank, RichiH and Axel
Tagged as: bug, dietlibc, glibc, packaging, Planet Debian, question, Stretch, zsh, zsh-static
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