On Sat, May 08, 1999 at 04:46:48PM -0500, Ossama Othman wrote: > Description (from Joey Hess): > .la files aren't useless, libtool can use them and they are essential > to programs that use libltdl. Proposal is to include .la files in -dev > packages if they are produced by the build process.
Pardon if I misunderstand libtool, but the first sentence suggests to me that .la files are in some circumstances required for the _use_ of a library. If this is the case, they belong in the main library package, not the -dev package. Andrew
