On 20/07/10 18:40, Russ Allbery wrote: > Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <[email protected]> writes: >> 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. > > Yeah, it may be at that point -- the concern with a Lintian warning was > that we didn't want to have people remove them when other packages still > depended on them, and had at least one case of that which caused a bunch > of problems. But if we analyzed the *.la file and checked > dependency_libs, we could at least warn about that.
I was going to report a bug right now, but there's already one, #586313. Regards, Emilio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
