This change resulted in /usr/lib/*/libgpg-error.so being a dangling symlink on non-merged-/usr systems, notably all official buildd chroots, causing linking to the shared library to fail. For shared libraries that depend on libgpg-error, falling back to the static library also fails, because it isn't PIC, causing build failure.
This reverts commit 7c408ba0.
Closes: #992573