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Re: Seeking help to resolve a lintian request



On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 12:46, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

> 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.
> 
Of course it shouldn't be!

The Debian libtool is used by any upstream developer who develops on
Debian.

Scott
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