Re: Seeking help to resolve a lintian request
On Monday 16 September 2002 14:43, Richard Braakman wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 11:52:49AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> > I am willing to add this to lintian if the check makes sense (I am not a
> > libtool expert or even user) as long as someone tells me how to make the
> > check work sensibly.
>
> I don't think it makes sense. .la files should not go into shared library
> packages, because their filenames are not versioned. And putting them in
> a development package is useless for Debian systems, because our linker
> doesn't need to be worked around. In fact, .la files are often a source
> of bugs: I have seen many that contain paths for the maintainer's home
> directory.
>
> In fact, Lintian should probably warn against including .la files, for
> these reasons.
>
I see. Anyone else care to comment?
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