[Pkg-ltsp-devel] Bug#621544: ldm: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

[Vagrant Cascadian]

On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 06:07:17PM +0100, codehelp at debian.org wrote:
> To finish an old release goal from Squeeze, to comply with Policy
> 10.2 and to ease the introduction of MultiArch, I'm filing bugs
> against packages which contain .la files which can be either removed
> or stripped of the dependency_libs variable.
...
> In most cases, the .la file(s) can simply be removed as the process
> behind this MBF has already identified that there are no further
> dependencies using the .la file.

the files in question are:

  /usr/lib/ldm/librdesktop.la
  /usr/lib/ldm/libssh.la

manually removing the files after package build doesn't break either the ssh 
or rdesktop backends, so that's at least promising.

live well,
  vagrant