[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#633239: Bug#633239: libxfce4ui: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

[Neil Williams]

On Sat, 09 Jul 2011 13:59:29 +0200
Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org> wrote:

> On sam., 2011-07-09 at 10:29 +0100, codehelp at debian.org wrote:
> > libxfce4ui (4.8.0-2) appears in this list as a source package because
> > one or more of the binary packages (usually -dev packages) contain
> > .la files.
> 
> Where exactly do you see it?

libxfce4ui: dependency_libs links-not-existing-la 

line 358.

$ grep -n "^libxfce4ui" current.txt 
358:libxfce4ui: dependency_libs links-not-existing-la 

/usr/lib/glade3/modules/libxfce4uiglade.la

$ dpkg -c glade-xfce_4.8.0-2_amd64.deb |grep "\.la"
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1462 2011-04-19 14:58 ./usr/lib/glade3/modules/libxfce4uiglade.la

# Libraries that this one depends upon.
dependency_libs=' /usr/lib/libxfce4ui-1.la -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lstartup-notification-1 -lxfce4util -lgladeui-1 /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.la /usr/lib/libxml2.la /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.la /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.la /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.la /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.la /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.la /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.la -lm /usr/lib/libcairo.la /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.la /usr/lib/libfreetype.la -lfontconfig /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.la /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.la /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.la -lrt /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.la'

Yes, usually the .la file is in a -dev package, in your case it's in a module. The rest of the .la file is probably fine and necessary. The dependency_libs is not.

So this is probably a case where the .la file can be retained but even then, the dependency_libs setting still needs to be cleared. There are example commands on the Wiki page.

http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/LAFileRemoval

HTH

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Neil Williams
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