Re: broken dev packages / removal of *.la files

[David Nusinow <david_nusinow@verizon.net>]

On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 06:57:39AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> with the latest uploads, all *.la files have been removed from the X
> *-dev packages. Yet there are still many non X dev packages out there,
> that ship *.la files that reference these files, e.g. libkdecore.la from
> kdelibs4-dev has libXrender.la as a dependency lib. This breaks the
> compilation of a lot of packages, virtually every KDE app.
> On my machine, a quick grep reveals this, certainly not complete, list
> of -dev packages with references on either libXrender.la or libXcursor.la:
> 
> kdebase-dev
> kdelibs4-dev
> libarts1-mpeglib
> libavahi-qt3-dev
> libbonoboui2-dev
> libcairo2-dev
> libcvsservice-dev
> libeel2-dev
> libgail-dev
> libgnomecanvas2-dev
> libgnome-desktop-dev
> libgnomeprintui2.2-dev
> libgnomeui-dev
> libgtk2.0-dev
> libgtkglext1-dev
> libnautilus-extension-dev
> libnotify-dev
> libpanel-applet2-dev
> libpango1.0-dev
> librsvg2-dev
> libwnck-dev
> 
> Should we schedule binNMUs for all these packages or how do you intend
> to handle this matter?

Yes, please do binNMU's. If necessary I can re-add the .la files, but I'd
rather just do the transition now and get it over with, especially since it
requires a minimal amount of manual labor.

 - David Nusinow