[Joe Orton] > `neon-config --la-file` is part of the defined and documented neon > interface: removing the .la file breaks that interface, and hence > will break applications designed to build against neon. So, I was the one who requested that the neon26 maintainer remove the .la file. I'll incorporate Ondrej and Steve's comments by reference here - suffice it to say Debian has good reasons to want to phase out .la files entirely, if possible. As for 'neon-config --la-file', I am curious why it even exists. Is not 'neon-config --libs' just as effective? If you pass "-lneon" to libtool --mode=link, it looks for the .la file anyway and uses it if found. So even on platforms where the .la file adds real value, 'neon-config --libs' should still work perfectly. As for Debian, changing 'neon-config --la-file' to be a synonym for 'neon-config --libs' is probably the right thing to do. Peter
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