Package: liblink-grammar4-dev Version: 4.6.5-1 Severity: normal
Hi, /usr/lib/liblink-grammar.la contains the following line: ---8<--- dependency_libs=' -lm /usr/lib/libaspell.la' ---8<--- Since liblink-grammar4-dev doesn't depend on the package shipping libaspell.la (libaspell-dev), any package build-depending on liblink-grammar4-dev without libaspell-dev is likely to ftbfs with a "/usr/lib/libaspell.la: No such file or directory" error. This is what happened to abiword (<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=569373>). Its maintainer workarounded this issue by build-depending on libaspell-dev, but I think the 'real' bug is due to liblink-grammar.la. As described on <http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/LAFileRemoval>, possible fixes: * delete /usr/lib/*.la files (I haven't tested) * empty dependency_libs in /usr/lib/*.la (see attached patch, I tested it on Ubuntu lucid, and abiword is able to build successfully). Thanks! Cheers, Lionel -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers karmic-updates APT policy: (500, 'karmic-updates'), (500, 'karmic-security'), (500, 'karmic') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-02063208-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- Lionel Le Folgoc - https://launchpad.net/~mrpouit E61E 116D 4BA1 3936 0A33 F61D 65D9 A66E 10E2 969A
diff -u link-grammar-4.6.5/debian/rules link-grammar-4.6.5/debian/rules
--- link-grammar-4.6.5/debian/rules
+++ link-grammar-4.6.5/debian/rules
@@ -34,0 +35,4 @@
+binary-install/liblink-grammar4-dev::
+ # Empty dependency_libs in all .la files
+ find debian/liblink-grammar4-dev/usr -name "*.la" -type f -exec sed -e "s,^dependency_libs=.*,dependency_libs=''," -i {} \;
+
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