Bug#444284: kdelibs: Please explicitly link against libthai
Package: kdelibs
Version: 4:3.5.7.dfsg.1-7
Severity: wishlist
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Upstream kdelibs has provided two methods for using libthai to analyze
Thai word boundaries in KHTML: by explicit linking or by dynamic loading.
So far, libthai has secretly served Thai KDE users through the latter
method. However, this requires users to install libthai-dev, although
they don't want to compile any program against libthai and its
dependency. This is because the KLibLoader used to dlopen() it requires
*.la file. And this has just been removed in the lastest libthai, as it's
not so desirable to ship it, and none of libthai's reverse dependencies
require it any more.
To continue serving Thai KDE users, I think it should be explicitly
linked, by having kdelibs build-depend on libthai-dev, and passing
- --with-libthai=yes it its configure options.
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=th_TH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=th_TH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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