Re: Bug#539687: marked as done (libogg-dev: Removal of .la should have been coordinated with other packages)

[Peter Samuelson <peter@p12n.org>]

[Erik de Castro Lopo]
> I'm think I'm coming in rather late on this, but why were these .la
> files removed? I've read through bug#539687 and its still not clear.

I can't speak for Ron, but in general, the reason to remove .la files
is that pkg-config (and the .pc files in /usr/lib/pkgconfig) offers the
same functionality, and more, with considerably less brokenness.  We'd
like to encourage upstreams to ship .pc files and use pkg-config in
their configure.ac scripts as the primary means of detecting the
presence of other libraries and how to use them.
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