README for Debian
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By recommendation from upstream authors, monotone is currently linked
statically with versions of sqlite3, lua and popt libraries compiled
from patched source code shipped together with monotone.

This has implications on the security support in Debian.

Work has been initiated to make monotone work with an unpatched sqlite3
library. If this work is sucessful, monotone in Debian can start to link
dynamically with sqlite3 as provided in the Debian archive.

From Debian's point of view, lua and popt should also be used as shared
libraries in Debian, but that is less likely according to upstream.

 -- Tomas Fasth <tomfa@debian.org>  Fri, 29 Jul 2005 13:44:35 +0000