Re: Policy 3.9.1 planning
On 20/07/10 18:40, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org> writes:
>> Would this be worth a lintian warning? I've tried to remove .la files
>> from quite a few GNOME packages but I couldn't because there were other
>> packages' .la files referencing them. Maybe a lintian warning would make
>> people more aware of the issue.
>
> Yeah, it may be at that point -- the concern with a Lintian warning was
> that we didn't want to have people remove them when other packages still
> depended on them, and had at least one case of that which caused a bunch
> of problems. But if we analyzed the *.la file and checked
> dependency_libs, we could at least warn about that.
I was going to report a bug right now, but there's already one, #586313.
Regards,
Emilio
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