On 2011-04-03, Neil Williams <codeh...@debian.org> wrote: > I'm now getting patches from Ubuntu to catch up the effects of this old > Release Goal. I fully support the removal of .la files [0] but it would > be good if we could refresh the original goal so that .la files can be > removed rather than applying a piece-meal set of patches to only > certain packages which have been spotted independently. That way leads > only to pain.
.la files themselves are harmless, if the dependency_libs field is cleared. There might be hard to replace old copies of libltdl in various code pieces that can only open libraries/plugins with .la files. src:kdelibs (which is about to be removed from debian) is one such example. I don't know if there is others. /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/slrnipgn2i.rvp.nos...@sshway.ssh.pusling.com
