Re: dh_libtool proposal (-dev dependencies on -dev from libtool)
On Thu, 06 Oct 2005, Stephen Frost wrote:
> don't include static library dependencies in the Depends. libtool does
> actually survive just fine if the first-level .la files go missing in
Correct.
> fact, as I recall, it's the ones below that which cause it to break,
> even for shared linking when none of them are needed at all anyway. :/
Which is clearly a hideous bug, and upstream acknowledges this.
> In the end I think this is a bad idea and we should instead focus and
> spend time on fixing the actual problem than trying to build some hack
> around it.
Seconded. No dh_libtool, please.
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