Bug#619220: yelp: please wipe out dependency_libs from .la files (Policy 10.2)

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

Hi Steve,

On 22/03/11 02:27, Steve Langasek wrote:
> The attached patch has just been applied to the Ubuntu yelp package, to null
> out the dependency_libs field in the libtool .la files being shipped in the
> -dev package.  This is generally a good idea because it avoids causing
> consumers of your library to require other .la files listed here to be
> available at build time when they're not actually needed (i.e., in the
> dynamic linking common case).  It's specifically a good idea right now
> because multiarch is imminent, and that means the .la files referenced here
> are going to *move* soon, causing build failures for anything using libtool
> to build against yelp.  As long as yelp is going to need a rebuild to fix up
> the invalid .la references, it would be nice to get rid of them altogether.

Did you really mean yelp? It has no -dev package and ships no .la files.

Cheers,
Emilio