* Steve Langasek (vorlon@debian.org) wrote: > However, a recent discussion with the libtool maintainer revealed that a > subtle bug with libtool requires that any .la file used for building > other libraries have all of its .la dependencies also installed on the > system. This means that any -dev packages that contain .la files > should, for the time being, continue to depend on the -dev packages of > libraries they depend on. :/ Wouldn't it make more sense to drop the entirely unnecessary .la files and the dependency from the -dev package? Stephen
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