Twas brillig at 17:39:28 01.04.2008 UTC+01 when Jonny Lamb did gyre and gimble:
JL> Thank you for your patch. However, I'm unsure as to why the .la JL> file is useless on Debian? The Debian Policy manual[0] says: JL> "Packages that use libtool to create shared libraries should JL> include the .la files in the -dev package" Hmm... You're right, policy says so. .la are useless IMHO because all they provide is the workarounds for the systems with inferior linkers and shared libraries, and GNU toolkit is ok regarding libraries dependencies tracking and runtime linking. Anyway, policy says ".la should be included", so let it be included. --
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