Bug#657156: libgpg-error: Please drop .la file from -dev package
Package: libgpg-error Version: 1.10-2 Severity: normal Tags: patch User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu precise ubuntu-patch Hi José Carlos, I've just updated libgpg-error in Ubuntu from the version in Debian testing, and noticed that the -dev package still has a libtool .la file in it. As explained at http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/LAFileRemoval, it would be best to remove this file from the package altogether: - libgpg-error has no other lib dependencies, so it provides no advantages for static linking - according to http://release.debian.org/~aba/la/current.txt, there are no other .la files in the archive that reference it - even if there were, since the .la file's location has now moved on disk to the multiarch directory, any such references would currently be broken So this seems like a good time for the .la file to be removed from the package, to avoid any other packages *gaining* a dependency on it. Please see the attached (trivial) patch for this, which I've applied in Ubuntu precise. Thanks for considering, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org === modified file 'debian/libgpg-error-dev.install' --- debian/libgpg-error-dev.install 2012-01-06 00:46:00 + +++ debian/libgpg-error-dev.install 2012-01-24 14:27:33 + @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@ usr/bin/* usr/include/* -usr/lib/*/libgpg-error.la usr/lib/*/libgpg-error.a #usr/lib/*/libgpg-error.so usr/share/aclocal/*.m4
Bug#657156: libgpg-error: Please drop .la file from -dev package
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Steve Langasek steve.langa...@canonical.com wrote: Package: libgpg-error Version: 1.10-2 Severity: normal Tags: patch User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu precise ubuntu-patch Hi José Carlos, Hi Steve, I've just updated libgpg-error in Ubuntu from the version in Debian testing, and noticed that the -dev package still has a libtool .la file in it. As explained at http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/LAFileRemoval, it would be best to remove this file from the package altogether: Actually I reintroduced .la file because of bug #653693. I have to admit that I don't know what is Florian's usercase, but it seemed to me a valid point to have a .la file in a so tiny library as libgpg-error to make people compiling static things a bit easier. Anyway, I am open to discuss it and remove the file again if we agree that. Kind regards, -- José Carlos García Sogo js...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#657156: libgpg-error: Please drop .la file from -dev package
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 04:15:24PM +0100, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: I've just updated libgpg-error in Ubuntu from the version in Debian testing, and noticed that the -dev package still has a libtool .la file in it. As explained at http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/LAFileRemoval, it would be best to remove this file from the package altogether: Actually I reintroduced .la file because of bug #653693. I have to admit that I don't know what is Florian's usercase, but it seemed to me a valid point to have a .la file in a so tiny library as libgpg-error to make people compiling static things a bit easier. Anyway, I am open to discuss it and remove the file again if we agree that. Bug #653693 is about the static library - the .a file. I'm concerned here with the libtool metadata, the .la file, which has no relevance here (or to bug #653693). If libgpg-error had dependencies on other libraries, and these libraries were declared in the dependency_libs field, the .la file would actually benefit static linking. But Debian has decided as a project not to support this use of .la files due to the negative side-effects on the common case of dynamic linking, so the .la file should go away anyway. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#657156: Bug#653693: Bug#657156: libgpg-error: Please drop .la file from -dev package
* Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo: I've just updated libgpg-error in Ubuntu from the version in Debian testing, and noticed that the -dev package still has a libtool .la file in it. As explained at http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/LAFileRemoval, it would be best to remove this file from the package altogether: Actually I reintroduced .la file because of bug #653693. I have to admit that I don't know what is Florian's usercase, but it seemed to me a valid point to have a .la file in a so tiny library as libgpg-error to make people compiling static things a bit easier. If I typed .a instead of .la, that was a mistake, sorry. I'm somewhat interested in the .a file only (and that as a dependency of the GNUTLS packages). pkg-config support would be nice, too, but would need changes to GNUTLS as well. -- Florian Weimerfwei...@bfk.de BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
