[Pkg-openldap-devel] Serious error in the packaging of OpenLDAP 2.3

[Stephen Frost]

* Steve Langasek (vorlon at debian.org) wrote:
> Hmm.  Well, the .la files were dropped for a reason -- I just can't remember
> now what the precise reason was, and there's little detail in the changelog.
> Stephen, do you remember why this was done, and what problems reverting this
> change might cause?

My recollection was the general stupidity of them (as they're completely
unnecessary...), there was some concern about them bringing in
completely inappropriate Depends (like, the -dev depending on *every
-dev package underneath*, even if not used directly), and the problems
they cause when they're not *always* there (ie: they exist at some
levels but not at others and libtool falls apart because of it).

> At a guess, the reason was the stupidity of .la files hard-coding a list of
> indirect library dependencies which would shift underneath the package and
> break loading with libltdl; but I'm honestly not sure if this was ever a
> problem with libltdl.

I know the hard-coded list of indirect library dependencies was an
issue, but I'm not sure if the issue was the one you describe here..

	Thanks,

		Stephen
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