Bug#354674: What on earth?
On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 11:12 -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Please tell me if I have this right:
> * You don't like .la files
> * So you're unilaterally removing them from a core package
> (libxcursor) with dozens of reverse-depends, breaking all of
> them
> * Even though they're a years-old and very well established
> technology
> * Which upstream libtool has not yet decided to eliminate ("It's
> already under discussion")
> * And which has not been discussed on debian-devel or any other
> Debian list as far as I can tell (Google search).
Okay, my mistake, the removal of .la files throughout X packages
indicates that this was an X-wide decision, not an isolated developer.
But I still don't see any discussion on Debian lists outside of this one
bug.
"I guess that's why they call it unstable..."
Cheers,
-Adam
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