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

[Russ Allbery]

Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> writes:

> We aren't shipping a slapd-dev package, so -dev dependencies can't be an
> issue here.  We also don't care about opening these particular .la files
> with libtool, they should only be opened with libltdl.  Are there any
> known problems with libltdl3 traversing .la files looking for trouble?

> I guess we don't have a solid answer to that, and probably should do some
> testing.

And for this case, even if there is trouble, I expect we could just
lobotomize the dependency section of the installed *.la files rather than
deleting them and accomplish the same simplification.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>