Re: MBF: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

2011-04-10 Thread Andreas Metzler
Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org wrote: [...] With the caveats already covered in this thread (excepting kdelibs), are there objections to a MBF for this outdated Release Goal? We've already missed this Release Goal once, probably because no bugs were filed first time around. [...] Hello, I

Re: MBF: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

2011-04-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 08:41:37AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: This apparently just isn't true. I could have sworn that we had a check, but we apparently do not. We definitely should. That's probably why there are so many problems; I suspect a lot of them would go away if

Re: MBF: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

2011-04-05 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 16:12:42 -0700 Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 07:33:24PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: Lintian already checks that *.la files don't contain the problematic dependency_libs setting. This apparently just isn't true. I could have sworn

MBF: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

2011-04-04 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 10:49:04 -0700 Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org writes: The line in the original data is: shibboleth-sp2: dependency_libs links-not-existing-la The original criteria were: 1. no flag to remove the la-file on next occasion

Re: MBF: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

2011-04-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 07:33:24PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: Lintian already checks that *.la files don't contain the problematic dependency_libs setting. This apparently just isn't true. I could have sworn that we had a check, but we apparently do not. We definitely should. That's