Richard Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Dirk Mueller wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, 20. February 2007 13:40, Richard Guenther wrote:
>> 
>> > Most .la files packaged in -devel packages can be removed in case
>> > static linking is not required.  .la files necessary at runtime to
>> > make ltdlopen work should be packaged in the regular library package.
>> 
>> in case of libpopt (which for very strange reasons is built by rpm), the .la 
>> file can just be deleted, because it doesn't have additional dependencies. 
>
> Indeed.

So, Dirk and Richard: will either of you do it, please?

>> > Now, whether we should stop packaging static libraries for each and
>> > every library we have is another (valid) question.
>> 
>> static libs should at least be in the -devel subpackage and removed if it is 
>> a 
>> library that likely suffers from security vulnerabilities (to avoid that the 
>> code is statically linked into some other package). 
>
> Well, I doubt we for example ever will need
>
> /usr/lib64/libxfce4mcs-client.a
>
> which is unfortunately in libxfce4mcs-4.2.3-29 and not a -devel package
> for example.  Care to write a brp-check for .a and .so files not in a
> -devel package?

Yes, I agree,
Andreas
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