Bug#37338: `.la' files -- neglected to mention some things

[Ossama Othman <othman@cs.wustl.edu>]

Hi,

I neglected to mention some things Manoj suggested I mention in the
ammendment bug report for inclusion of `.la' files in `-dev' packages
so here they are:

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Wording to go in to what is currently section 4.3 "Shared Libraries" in
the policy manual (toward the end of the section):

Libtool can make use of the meta-data contained in `.la' files.  They 
are also essential for packages that use the libtool `libltdl' library.
Any package that uses libtool to generated shared libraries will
generate `.la' files.  If your package generates libtool libraries, i.e.
`.la' files, then you should include them in your library `-dev'
package.

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Discussion Period:  2 weeks (from 8 May 1999 ending on 22 May 1999)

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Disagreements:  None so far.  Some have expressed "concerns," however.

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Thanks,
-Ossama
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Ossama Othman <othman@cs.wustl.edu>
Center for Distributed Object Computing, Washington University, St. Louis
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