Package: libgpg-error Version: 1.10-2 Severity: normal Tags: patch User: [email protected] Usertags: origin-ubuntu precise ubuntu-patch
Hi José Carlos, 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: - libgpg-error has no other lib dependencies, so it provides no advantages for static linking - according to http://release.debian.org/~aba/la/current.txt, there are no other .la files in the archive that reference it - even if there were, since the .la file's location has now moved on disk to the multiarch directory, any such references would currently be broken So this seems like a good time for the .la file to be removed from the package, to avoid any other packages *gaining* a dependency on it. Please see the attached (trivial) patch for this, which I've applied in Ubuntu precise. Thanks for considering, -- 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]
=== modified file 'debian/libgpg-error-dev.install' --- debian/libgpg-error-dev.install 2012-01-06 00:46:00 +0000 +++ debian/libgpg-error-dev.install 2012-01-24 14:27:33 +0000 @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@ usr/bin/* usr/include/* -usr/lib/*/libgpg-error.la usr/lib/*/libgpg-error.a #usr/lib/*/libgpg-error.so usr/share/aclocal/*.m4
