* Nico Schlömer <nico.schloemer@gmail.com>, 2014-04-08, 10:24:
if a packages produces static libraries .a, .la, do they belong in liba or liba-dev?
They belong in the -dev package.But note that, as per Policy §10.2, .la files “normally should not be included in the Debian package”.
-- Jakub Wilk