* Andreas Barth ([email protected]) [090816 18:11]: > [...] After having some discussions on IRC yesterday, I propose the new release goal to get rid of all unneeded *.la-files and emptying dependency_libs otherwise (the second already has a good effect on archive stableness and avoiding "funny" RC-bugs / FTBFS).
Currently we have (ignoring any files in /usr/lib/kde3, as they are unfortunatly necessary, and always counting source packages even though of course looked into binary packages on sid/i386) 1098 packages that contain *.la-files, where 856 have dependency_libs not empty, and 421 packages are referenced by other *.la-files, i.e. 672 packages only contain leaf *.la-files (i.e. not referenced by any dependency_libs). The idea is to ask all maintainers of the 672 packages to drop their *.la-file unless really needed, and any maintainer of any package to empty the dependency_libs. "Asking" includes both a mail to d-d-a and individual bug reports (and a previous discussion on d-devel for the mass bug filing). After the first packages have their *.la-file dropped / dependency_libs removed, more packages can drop their *.la-file, and we should end up only with the cases where we really need the file. To avoid new occurences a lintian-check would be good to see where we have unneeded *.la-files or la-files with dependency_libs (and I try to get that done at about the same time as I send the mail to d-d-a). Cheers, Andi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
