Re: Seeking help to resolve a lintian request
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Simon Richter wrote:
> That .la files are close to useless on GNU systems does not make them
> less valuable for portable programs, and unless you want each developer
> to patch them out in his .diff.gz (because a good upstream wouldn't
> accept a patch that breaks his program on many platforms), your best
> option is to leave them in and make sure they don't stand in the way
> (which is possible).
Wrong. You refresh libtool on the debian-packaged version of the software,
and don't bother upstream. Debian libtool should be patched to kill the .la
files.
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Henrique Holschuh
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