* Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo:

>> 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.

If I typed ".a" instead of ".la", that was a mistake, sorry.  I'm
somewhat interested in the ".a" file only (and that as a dependency of
the GNUTLS packages).  pkg-config support would be nice, too, but would
need changes to GNUTLS as well.

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