Re: libtool .la archives - name collision?

[dichro-34cb2ea@eris.rcpt.to (Mikolaj J. Habryn)]

>>>>> "BC" == Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:

    BC> No because the .la files only go into the -dev package for the
    BC> library, 

  Section 4.2 of the policy manual, according to my reading, seems to
disagree...

 Packages that use libtool to create shared libraries must include the
 _.la_ files in the _-dev_ packages, with the exception that if the
 package relies on libtool's _libltdl_ library, in which case the .la
 files must go in the run-time library package. This is a good idea in
 general, and especially for static linking issues.

  It seems to be suggesting that .la files in the run-time library
package is a good idea in general, and even if I'm misreading that,
they definitely go in if the libraries are used by something relying
on libltdl.

  Or am I missing something?

m.