help on a request that lintian know about libtool's .la files

2001-02-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
bug #71581 asks that lintian complain about packages that fail to ship .la files as policy 11.2 requires. I am not against this per se. However, how am I to know that a package should ship a .la file? When policy refers to libs needing libltdl does it mean they dynamically link it? So I could u

Re: libtool's .la files

1999-05-05 Thread Joel Klecker
At 16:58 -0500 1999-05-04, Ossama Othman wrote: On 4 May, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > if the soname is libltdl.so.0.1.1 the package should be called libltdl0.1.1; > if, OTOH, the soname is libltdl.so.0 (which is more likely, given libtool > generates that kind of sonames), then the package sh

Re: libtool's .la files

1999-05-04 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi Marcelo, On 4 May, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 02:15:31PM -0500, Ossama Othman wrote: > > >* Reverted my "correction" of the libltdl* package name. The soname > > of the libltdl libraries is currently 0.1.1, therefore the libltdl > > packages shoul

libtool's .la files

1999-05-04 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 02:15:31PM -0500, Ossama Othman wrote: >* Reverted my "correction" of the libltdl* package name. The soname > of the libltdl libraries is currently 0.1.1, therefore the libltdl > packages should be named libltdl0.1, according to current Debian > policy.