[Pkg-alsa-devel] Removal of *.la

[Jordi Mallach]

Hi,

As discussed with Elimar in some other place,

On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 01:01:19PM -0700, Dan Chen wrote:
> > should we remove the .la files in alsa-(lib|oss) on next upload?
> > A removal from within alsa lib will caus binNMU's of:
> > arts aubio basket bochs bse-alsa classpath denemo ecasound2.2
> > fluidsynth fluidsynth-dssi freej galan gimp gmerlin gnuradio
> > iaxclient kaf

The release team wants to avoid  this.

> I propose that we don't install .la at all.

14:59 < jordi> aba: before I revert the .la thing, when will be a good time to 
               do the alsa-lib .la transition?
14:59 < jordi> aba: just so I know in advance
14:59 < jordi> (And Elimar is asking me too)
15:28 < luk_work> jordi: if you mean cleaning the dep field in the .la then 
                  there is no transition
15:29 < jordi> luk_work: I mean removing it entirely
15:31 < luk_work> jordi: when all reverse deps have removed the la file already 
                  AFAIK
16:04 < pusling> jordi: but the .la file does not hurt to keep, once all .la 
                 files gets their depbendency_Libs cleared
16:07 < Np237> once these are all cleared, we can simply drop all .la files 
               without side effects

Current SVN will restore .la and clear dependency_libs. When the other
packages do their stuff, we'll be able to remove it.

Dan, I'm not sure how Ubuntu is handling this, but of course if Ubuntu is
doing a more aggressive transition, you're lucky enough to remove it in your
branch. :)

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