Package: libexif-gtk Version: 0.3.5-4 Severity: normal Tags: patch User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu natty ubuntu-patch
Hi - I've just applied the attached patch to libexif-gtk in Ubuntu to empty out the dependency_libs field in the libtool .la file being shipped in the -dev package. This is generally a good idea because it avoids causing consumers of your library to require the .la files listed to be available when they're not actually needed (i.e., in the common case of dynamic linking). It will also cause problems in the near future because multiarch is landing soon, which will cause the ..la files referenced by libexif-gtk to move, which would cause build failures for anything linking against libexif-gtk. This change will require a rebuild of libexif-gtk anyway in order to update the paths in the .la file, so it's a great opportunity to just wipe out dependency_libs entirely. The changelog entry for this upload in Ubuntu is: * Rebuild to pick up multiarch changes. * Clean .la files. Thanks for considering the patch. - Evan -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers maverick-updates APT policy: (500, 'maverick-updates'), (500, 'maverick-security'), (500, 'maverick') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.35-24-generic (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
diff -u libexif-gtk-0.3.5/debian/rules libexif-gtk-0.3.5/debian/rules --- libexif-gtk-0.3.5/debian/rules +++ libexif-gtk-0.3.5/debian/rules @@ -17,0 +18,6 @@ + +override_dh_auto_install: + dh_auto_install + set -e; for file in `ls debian/tmp/usr/lib/*.la`; do \ + sed -i "/dependency_libs/ s/'.*'/''/" $$file; \ + done
