Bug#293421: Installed size of development package has quadrupled since GTK+ 2.4.14

[Ross Burton]

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On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 09:46 +0100, Lo=C3=AFc Minier wrote:
>  dh_strip is correctly called, and for .a files, strip --strip-debug is
>  called.

Are the static GTK+ etc libraries actually usable at all?  As I
understand it, GTK+ can be linked to a static library but there are
still many libraries it opens at runtime (gdk image loaders, gtk input
methods, Pango engines) which makes providing .a files pretty useless.

Ross
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