here is where the debian maintainer removed static files https://salsa.debian.org/debian/libphonenumber/-/commit/ae644645da0fc5f69584...
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As far as I can understand, here is the [configure step of cmake](https://salsa.debian.org/debian/libphonenumber/-/blob/debian/sid/debian/rule...). They don't set [BUILD_STATIC_LIB]( https://github.com/google/libphonenumber/blob/ff8fbbdb2ffe12aff1c7f54d5314b2...) to `OFF` and therefore both shared and static are built and their targets do exist.
So, by not installing the static libraries, the static target complains that the static library is not found and rightfully so. Either the debian packager must set the `BUILD_STATIC_LIB` option to `OFF` if they don't want to offer the static version, or install the the static as well.
That's my understanding so far, please let me know if I get something wrong! and if there is a way to create an issue for the debian packager
For rpm it will be
[root@nout SPECS]# rpm -qa | grep libphonenum libphonenumber-8.13.45-1.fc41.x86_64 libphonenumber-devel-8.13.45-1.fc41.x86_64
For Fedora https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/libphonenumber/8.13.45/1.fc41/d... from here I see that both are installed and picks up correctly therefore