Hello, regarding bug #621170 filed against gnu-smalltak for *.la removal, here is the current situation:
gnu-smalltalk packages contains /usr/lib/gnu-smalltalk/libc.la I'm attaching it here for the reference. Please note that the .la file is *not* in a -dev package. It's not intended to be used by any other package, but by the GNU Smalltalk VM to be able to dynamically load the libc (using libtdl) whatever the libc is (e.g. libc.so.6 or libc.so.0.1), and without requiring libc6-dev package to be installed. For more details on the way load works see: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=621170#20 Hence I believe this bug can be closed without any action. Do you agree with this analysis? Thanks, Regards, Thomas
# libc.la - a libtool library file # Generated by GNU libtool # Created for GNU Smalltalk's dynamic loading mechanism. # The name that we can dlopen(3). dlname='libc.so.6' # Names of this library. library_names='libc.so.6' # Libraries that this one depends upon. dependency_libs='' # Is this an already installed library? installed=yes # Directory that this library needs to be installed in: libdir='/lib'