On 07/11/2011 08:17 PM, Olaf Dietsche wrote: >> I didn't look into your package, but still having an empty >> dependency_libs entry is important for multiarch support. According to >> http://release.debian.org/~aba/la/current.txt (which is linked from >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/05/msg01003.html) xmlsec1 is >> OK, so you should really clean this entry in your libgeier.la. > > I don't understand this either. > > If xmlsec1 is ok and libtool copies these dependencies into libgeier.la, > why is it an error for libgeier to include this information, but not for > xmlsec1? If you look at libxmlsec1-dev you will notice that the dependencies_libs entry is empty, as it should be. > If this is a bug for libgeier, libtool shouldn't copy these > dependencies in the first place. > > And if an empty dependency_libs entry is important for multiarch > support, why is it important for libgeier, but not for xmlsec1? It's important for ALL packages to either ship no la-file at all (if no other package references it) OR to have at least an empty dependencies_libs entry in the la-file. libxmlsec1-dev's la-file is empty, libgeier's isn't.
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