[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#591550: Bug#591550: slapd: Please stop depending on /usr/lib/libsasl2.la in .la files

[Russ Allbery]

"Roberto C. Sanchez" <roberto at connexer.com> writes:

> Package: slapd
> Version: 2.4.23-2
> Severity: normal

> The slapd package ships many .la files that that express a dependency on
> /usr/lib/libsasl2.la.  Please either clear the dependencies or stop
> shipping the .la files (c.f. Policy 10.2) so that cyrus-sasl2 can do the
> same and also be policy compliant.

In this particular case, removing libsasl2.la from the dependencies in the
*.la files is probably the right thing to do.  We can probably just empty
the dependency_libs variable.

We include the *.la files for the modules intentionally since upstream
documentation sometimes says to reference the *.la file for module loads.
(This is Policy-compliant; there's an exception in Policy for anything
that isn't a public shared library.)

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