Re: Policy 3.9.1 planning

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>]

On 20/07/10 02:43, Russ Allbery wrote:
>      10.2
>           Libtool `.la' files should not be installed for public libraries.
>           If they're required (for `libltdl', for instance), the
>           `dependency_libs' setting should be emptied.  Library packages
>           historically including `.la' files must continue to include them
>           (with `dependency_libs' emptied) until all libraries that depend
>           on that library have removed or emptied their `.la' files.
> 
> Release goal and should be in the checklist since it's a significant
> change.

Would this be worth a lintian warning? I've tried to remove .la files from quite
a few GNOME packages but I couldn't because there were other packages' .la files
referencing them. Maybe a lintian warning would make people more aware of the issue.

> So there are three or four things above that we could leave off.  Would
> people like me to try to trim the checklist down by removing things like
> shlibs.local that probably no one is using?

Though I like the idea of having a short list of things that really need
checking and that lintian doesn't already, for such a small amount of stuff that
you would remove I don't think it's really needed.

Regards,
Emilio