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Re: #369233: libradius1-dev: either fix or stop shipping a broken /usr/lib/libradiusclient.la



On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 11:17:15AM -0400, sean finney wrote:

> executive summary, .la file shipped in libradius1-dev was not
> correctly built and breaks any libtool-using software that
> needs to build against the package.  

> i was wondering if i could get a bit of feedback on this one.  my
> inclination is that the severity ought to be important, though i've
> had recommendations that it should be higher.  moreover, i wonder
> if this would warrant an update to s-p-u or not.  the patch would
> be relatively simple (sed -e 's/^installed=no/installed=yes/'), but
> the scope of the problem is fairly limited...

Given the prevalence of libtool, I would call this severity: serious at
least.  Up to the SRMs whether to allow an update to s-p-u, of course.

On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 06:31:08PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote:
> I don't know if this is helpful or not, but the current maintainer of
> radius has indicated to me that he may not have time to keep up with
> radius maintainership, and I am looking at taking it over.  I am happy
> to drop the .la files altogether, but I do worry a bit about the
> transition for packages that build depend transitively on it, as we saw
> with the X breakage.

As there are only two reverse-deps of libradius1 in Debian, and neither of
them is a library, I wouldn't worry so much about breakage of transitive
deps.

Cheers,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
vorlon@debian.org                                   http://www.debian.org/

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