Package: packagekit
Version: 0.6.11-2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu natty ubuntu-patch

Hi Matthias,

The attached patch has just been applied to the Ubuntu packagekit package,
to null out the dependency_libs field in the libtool .la file being shipped
in the -dev packages.  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 packagekit.  As long as packagekit is going to need a
rebuild to fix up the invalid .la references, it would be nice to get rid of
them altogether.

Thanks,
--
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                    http://www.debian.org/
slanga...@ubuntu.com                                     vor...@debian.org
=== modified file 'debian/rules'
--- debian/rules        2011-01-25 15:54:54 +0000
+++ debian/rules        2011-03-24 22:16:51 +0000
@@ -43,6 +43,10 @@
        rm -f $(INSTALLDIR)/usr/lib/gtk-?.0/modules/*.la
        rm -f 
$(INSTALLDIR)/usr/lib/polkit-1/extensions/libpackagekit-action-lookup.la
        rm -f $(INSTALLDIR)/usr/bin/packagekit-bugreport.sh
+       # And these files should be cleaned to remove dependency_libs.
+       for file in $(INSTALLDIR)/usr/lib/*.la; do \
+               sed -i "/dependency_libs/ s/'.*'/''/" $$file ; \
+       done
 
 override_dh_install:
        dh_install --list-missing

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