Re:

Hi Guillaume,

On Thu, 2023-10-19 at 19:51 +0200, Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
> From rpm/redhat/15/postgresql-15/EL-9/postgresql-15.spec (and many
> other
> postgresql .spec files):
>
> # These file(s) should not be packaged:
>
> %{__rm} %{buildroot}%{pgbaseinstdir}/lib/libpgfeutils.a
>
> I'm wondering why this library shouldn't be packaged? It is definitely
> useful for front-end clients.

This is per Fedora packaging guidelines:

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#packaging-static-libraries

...though it is a "should not" item. OTOH, the same guideline if we says
we need to split those files under  -static subpackage, which we don't
ship right now.

Just took a look at Fedora spec file, and they already ship these files
in -static subpackage (we ship them with -devel subpackage as of now)

libpgcommon.a
libpgcommon_shlib.a
libpgport.a
libpgport_shlib.a

but not libpgfeutils.a