[Erik de Castro Lopo] > I'm think I'm coming in rather late on this, but why were these .la > files removed? I've read through bug#539687 and its still not clear.
I can't speak for Ron, but in general, the reason to remove .la files is that pkg-config (and the .pc files in /usr/lib/pkgconfig) offers the same functionality, and more, with considerably less brokenness. We'd like to encourage upstreams to ship .pc files and use pkg-config in their configure.ac scripts as the primary means of detecting the presence of other libraries and how to use them. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
