Why should it be reintroduced? What requires it?

It's still in lib32-sdl simply because the maintainer hasn't rebuilt it yet. As soon as they do, the static lib will be gone there, too.

This library is used for buidling some applications (ex Speed Dreams 2).

Redhat had a similar problem back in 2008 : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430545

If you decide not to provide this library, what us (developers using sdl) are suppose to do ?

If they're needed, that's fine. I was asking because your report provided no reason at all.

You are right, mine introducing the problem was abrupt.

@ Gaëtan André (rvlander)
> If you decide not to provide this library, what us (developers using sdl) are suppose to do ?

Even if Arch doesn't provide it in the stock SDL package, you can rebuild it using ABS to include the static libraries.

OK thanks.

What is the reason why static libs where removed ?

Shared libraries should be used instead of static ones. However, in this case there's no libSDLmain.so* file in the sdl package, so libSDLmain.a should not be removed from the package.

Ok, I retrieved the static lib using ABS. But still in that case, is it a good idea not to have it in the official package ?