On 20/07/10 02:43, Russ Allbery wrote: > 10.2 > Libtool `.la' files should not be installed for public libraries. > If they're required (for `libltdl', for instance), the > `dependency_libs' setting should be emptied. Library packages > historically including `.la' files must continue to include them > (with `dependency_libs' emptied) until all libraries that depend > on that library have removed or emptied their `.la' files. > > Release goal and should be in the checklist since it's a significant > change.
Would this be worth a lintian warning? I've tried to remove .la files from quite a few GNOME packages but I couldn't because there were other packages' .la files referencing them. Maybe a lintian warning would make people more aware of the issue. > So there are three or four things above that we could leave off. Would > people like me to try to trim the checklist down by removing things like > shlibs.local that probably no one is using? Though I like the idea of having a short list of things that really need checking and that lintian doesn't already, for such a small amount of stuff that you would remove I don't think it's really needed. Regards, Emilio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
