On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 04:15:24PM +0100, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: > > I've just updated libgpg-error in Ubuntu from the version in Debian testing, > > and noticed that the -dev package still has a libtool .la file in it. As > > explained at <http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/LAFileRemoval>, it would > > be best to remove this file from the package altogether:
> Actually I reintroduced .la file because of bug #653693. I have to > admit that I don't know what is Florian's usercase, but it seemed to > me a valid point to have a .la file in a so tiny library as > libgpg-error to make people compiling static things a bit easier. > Anyway, I am open to discuss it and remove the file again if we agree that. Bug #653693 is about the static library - the .a file. I'm concerned here with the libtool metadata, the .la file, which has no relevance here (or to bug #653693). If libgpg-error had dependencies on other libraries, and these libraries were declared in the dependency_libs field, the .la file would actually benefit static linking. But Debian has decided as a project not to support this use of .la files due to the negative side-effects on the common case of dynamic linking, so the .la file should go away anyway. Thanks, -- 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/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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