Bug#620614: gmetadom: please wipe out dependency_libs from .la files (Policy 10.2)
Package: gmetadom
Version: 0.2.6-5
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
User: ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu natty ubuntu-patch
Hi folks, The attached patch has just been applied to the Ubuntu gmetadom
package, to null out the dependency_libs field in the libtool .la file being
shipped in the -dev package. This is generally a good idea because it
avoids causing consumers of your library to require other .la files listed
here to be available at build time when they're not actually needed (i.e.,
in the dynamic linking common case). It's specifically a good idea right
now because multiarch is imminent, and that means the .la files referenced
here are going to *move* soon, causing build failures for anything using
libtool to build against gmetadom. As long as gmetadom is going to need a
rebuild to fix up the invalid .la references, it would be nice to get rid of
them altogether.
Thanks,
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Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/
slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
diff -u gmetadom-0.2.6/debian/rules gmetadom-0.2.6/debian/rules
--- gmetadom-0.2.6/debian/rules
+++ gmetadom-0.2.6/debian/rules
@@ -10,0 +11,5 @@
+
+common-install-arch::
+ for file in debian/tmp/usr/lib/*.la; do \
+ sed -i "/dependency_libs/ s/'.*'/''/" $$file ; \
+ done
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