Hi Just to remember people that one can follow the status of the .la file dependency_libs clearing goal at Andreas' overview page [1].
A package entry followed by nothing more than a colon (:) means that the package ships an .la file with a cleared dependency_libs field. A package entry that contains 'dependency_libs' means that the dependency_libs field in the .la file still contains references to other libraries. A package entry that contains 'depended-on' means that the list of packages enclosed in brackets '()' have an .la file that contains a dependency_libs field that references this library. So the .la file in this package cannot easily be removed as it would break the mentioned packages. To ease clearing of the dependency_libs field, I'll mention here a sed snippit that can be included in the debian/rules file of an affected package at the end of the install target (aka after the upstream make invocation has completed): sed -i "/dependency_libs/ s/'.*'/''/" "$(CURDIR)/debian/<pkg>/usr/lib/<la-file>" Comments welcome, but foremost I'd like a mass effort to clear the remaining dependency_libs fields! :-) Cheers Luk [1] http://release.debian.org/~aba/la/current.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4dddf76a.1070...@debian.org
