We can't use .la files, it's against all the policies we have. On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Albert Graef <aggr...@gmail.com> wrote: > 16 months later and this issue is still there and not even a reply. Is > anyone reading these bug reports at all? Shoulkd I report the bug > somewhere else? > > This issue may not be important for many, as there aren't many 3rd party > developers of Gnumeric plugins right now, but it's important for me. Not > being able to build a Gnumeric plugins out of tree using the stock > Ubuntu packages of Gnumeric means that packaging external Gnumeric > plugins here on Launchpad is a major pita. This should be fixed. At > least if the Gnumeric developers are interested in 3rd party plugin > development. > > Come on, this should be worth at least a canned reply of the kind > "libspreadsheet is still not mature enough and probably it will never > be, so you're on your own". Noone? > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are a member of Xubuntu > Bugs Team, which is subscribed to gnumeric in Ubuntu. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006242 > > Title: > Please add gnumeric-dev package > > Status in “gnumeric” package in Ubuntu: > New > > Bug description: > The gnumeric packages in Ubuntu currently lack the development files. > Apparently (according to a comment in the rules file) libspreadsheet > isn't considered mature enough. This is a mistake IMHO. Mature or not, > these files are needed, in particular, to build Gnumeric plugins which > are not built as part of Gnumeric itself. An example is my PPA here: > https://launchpad.net/~dr-graef/+archive/pure-lang. Currently I have > to provide an alternative set of Gnumeric packages which includes the > development files just in order to build the Gnumeric Pure plugin. > > Adding the development package is trivial: > > 1. Remove these three lines in the rules file: > > rm -f debian/tmp/usr/lib/libspreadsheet*.la > rm -f debian/tmp/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libspreadsheet-*.pc > rm -rf debian/tmp/usr/include/libspreadsheet-* > > 2. Add something like the following package description to the control > file: > > Package: gnumeric-dev > Architecture: any > Depends: gnumeric (= ${binary:Version}), ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, > libgoffice-0.8-dev > Description: spreadsheet application for GNOME - development files > Gnumeric is a spreadsheet application that interoperates well > with other spreadsheets. It comes with plugins that enable it to deal with > commonly used spreadsheet file formats. > . > This package contains the headers and libraries needed for developing > gnumeric plugins. > > 3. Add the following file gnumeric-dev.install: > > /usr/include > /usr/lib/pkgconfig > /usr/lib/*.la > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnumeric/+bug/1006242/+subscriptions
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