* Steve Langasek (vorlon@debian.org) wrote: > On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 07:55:36PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > What about static linking? (the "other" role of -dev packages) > > If there are consumer applications that use libtool, and the library > they're statically linking against provides a .la file, it makes sense > for there to be dependency relationships between the -dev packages. In > practice, since almost nothing in Debian gets linked statically, I'm not > sure there's much ground for requiring a Depends: for this case alone. I'm not inclined to agree with even this. libtool generating .la files isn't a justification to add a Depends any more than me adding a .sfrost file to my packages would be. It's an informational file as far as I'm concerned, it certainly isn't necessary. Stephen
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