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Re: Development packages.



* Roger Leigh (roger@whinlatter.uklinux.net) wrote:
> Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> > We shouldn't be recommending providing staticlly linked libs for people
> > to use, even in the 'fast moving' case- if it's that fast then it
> > probably shouldn't be in Debian and that's just life.
> >
> > .la files shouldn't be included in anything, they're just plain broken.
> 
> Even with static libraries?  The .la does contain dependency
> information.  I know that using pkg-config .pc files can eliminate
> this case, but not everything using libtool is using pkg-config yet.

We shouldn't be shipping or using static libraries.

	Stephen

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