From: =?utf-8?q?Timo_R=C3=B6hling?= <roehling@debian.org>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2025 08:41:55 +0100
Subject: Prefer shared library for namespaced target

Forwarded: not-needed
---
 jsoncpp-namespaced-targets.cmake | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/jsoncpp-namespaced-targets.cmake b/jsoncpp-namespaced-targets.cmake
index 70a79ee..323eeab 100644
--- a/jsoncpp-namespaced-targets.cmake
+++ b/jsoncpp-namespaced-targets.cmake
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 if (NOT TARGET JsonCpp::JsonCpp)
-    if (TARGET jsoncpp_static)
-        add_library(JsonCpp::JsonCpp INTERFACE IMPORTED)
-        set_target_properties(JsonCpp::JsonCpp PROPERTIES INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES "jsoncpp_static")
-    elseif (TARGET jsoncpp_lib)
+    # Prefer shared library over static library.
+    # This diverges from upstream but makes more sense in Debian
+    if (TARGET jsoncpp_lib)
         add_library(JsonCpp::JsonCpp INTERFACE IMPORTED)
         set_target_properties(JsonCpp::JsonCpp PROPERTIES INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES "jsoncpp_lib")
+    elseif (TARGET jsoncpp_static)
+        add_library(JsonCpp::JsonCpp INTERFACE IMPORTED)
+        set_target_properties(JsonCpp::JsonCpp PROPERTIES INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES "jsoncpp_static")
     endif ()
 endif ()
