Re: MBF: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

2011-04-10 Thread Andreas Metzler
Neil Williams wrote: [...] > With the caveats already covered in this thread (excepting kdelibs), are > there objections to a MBF for this outdated Release Goal? We've already > missed this Release Goal once, probably because no bugs were filed > first time around. [...] Hello, I have also tagge

Re: MBF: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

2011-04-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 08:41:37AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > > This apparently just isn't true. I could have sworn that we had a > > > > check, > > > > but we apparently do not. We definitely should. That's probably why > > > > there are so many problems; I suspect a lot of them would g

Re: MBF: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

2011-04-05 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 16:12:42 -0700 Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 07:33:24PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > >> Lintian already checks that *.la files don't contain the problematic > > > >> dependency_libs setting. > > > > This apparently just isn't true. I could have sworn th

Re: MBF: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

2011-04-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 07:33:24PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > >> Lintian already checks that *.la files don't contain the problematic > > >> dependency_libs setting. > > This apparently just isn't true. I could have sworn that we had a check, > > but we apparently do not. We definitely shou

MBF: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

2011-04-04 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 10:49:04 -0700 Russ Allbery wrote: > Neil Williams writes: > > The line in the original data is: > > > shibboleth-sp2: dependency_libs links-not-existing-la > > > The original criteria were: > > > 1. "no flag" to remove the la-file on next occasion > > > 2. only "depende