Package: librra
Version: 0.14-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
User: [email protected]
Usertags: origin-ubuntu natty ubuntu-patch

Hi Jonny,

The attached patch has just been applied to the Ubuntu librra package, to
null out the dependency_libs field in the libtool .la file being shipped in
the -dev package.  This is generally a good idea because it avoids causing
consumers of your library to require other .la files listed here to be
available at build time when they're not actually needed (i.e., in the
dynamic linking common case).  It's specifically a good idea right now
because multiarch is imminent, and that means the .la files referenced here
are going to *move* soon, causing build failures for anything using libtool
to build against librra.  As long as librra is going to need a rebuild to
fix up the invalid .la references, it would be nice to get rid of them
altogether.

Thanks,
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Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                    http://www.debian.org/
[email protected]                                     [email protected]
diff -Nru librra-0.14/debian/rules librra-0.14/debian/rules
--- librra-0.14/debian/rules	2010-05-12 04:45:15.000000000 -0700
+++ librra-0.14/debian/rules	2011-04-02 23:22:37.000000000 -0700
@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@
 	dh_testdir
 	dh_testroot
 	$(MAKE) -C build-$* install DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp
+	for file in debian/tmp/usr/lib/*.la; do \
+		sed -i "/dependency_libs/ s/'.*'/''/" $$file ; \
+	done
 	dh_install
 
 install: $(PYVERS:%=install-%)

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