What were you trying to do that didn't work?

For using RHEL and CentOS Stream as development platforms (not for building packages for RHEL and CentOS Stream itself), it would be nice to have static subpackages so tools such as retsnoop can be compiled on RHEL/Stream and tested on hardware that might be running older RHEL/CentOS Stream releases without worrying about dependencies being too old.

Failing that, if the static subpackages are restored but hidden behind feature flags, it will make it easier to maintain rebuilds of the package in SIGs such as CentOS Hyperscale SIG.

This is aleady implemented in Fedora: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/elfutils/pull-request/12

Please provide the package NVR for which bug is seen:

elfutils-0.190-2.el9

elfutils-0.190-6.el10

How reproducible: Always

Steps to reproduce

fedrq subpkgs elfutils -b c9s | grep static

Expected results

elfutils-devel-static and elfutils-libelf-devel-static show up

Actual results

No static subpackages