Debian Bug report logs - #621183
dia: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

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Message #5 received at maintonly@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: codehelp@debian.org

To: maintonly@bugs.debian.org

Subject: dia: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 20:27:59 +0100

Package: dia
Severity: normal
User: codehelp@debian.org
Usertags: la-file-removal

To finish an old release goal from Squeeze, to comply with Policy
10.2 and to ease the introduction of MultiArch, I'm filing bugs
against packages which contain .la files which can be either removed
or stripped of the dependency_libs variable.

http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/LAFileRemoval

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/04/msg00055.html

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/04/msg00199.html

Data has been obtained from the output of an automated script:

http://release.debian.org/~aba/la/current.txt

The output is best read in conjunction with the criteria from this
post to debian-devel:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/08/msg00808.html

To generate the list of packages, I've used:

grep -v depended-on current.txt |cut -d: -f1

The data is regularly updated but please accept my apologies if you
have made an upload which changes the situation since the data was
parsed.

dia appears in this list as a source package because one or more of
the binary packages (usually -dev packages) contain .la files.

In most cases, the .la file(s) can simply be removed as the process
behind this MBF has already identified that there are no further
dependencies using the .la file. In the unusual case that your
package uses libltdl directly, it is still necessary to empty the
dependency_libs part of all .la files remaining in the package. Once
dia is fixed, the process will repeat and other packages which you
maintain may need to be fixed in turn. It is important that packages
are fixed in sequence to avoid FTBFS bugs.

If you believe that your package needs both the .la file and the
dependency_libs settings, please raise this on debian-devel for
clarification.
-- 

Neil Williams
=============
codehelp@debian.org
http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/

Message #10 received at 621183-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de>

To: 621183-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#621183: fixed in dia 0.97.1-8

Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 21:17:20 +0000

Source: dia
Source-Version: 0.97.1-8

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
dia, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

dia-common_0.97.1-8_all.deb
  to main/d/dia/dia-common_0.97.1-8_all.deb
dia-gnome_0.97.1-8_i386.deb
  to main/d/dia/dia-gnome_0.97.1-8_i386.deb
dia-libs_0.97.1-8_i386.deb
  to main/d/dia/dia-libs_0.97.1-8_i386.deb
dia_0.97.1-8.debian.tar.gz
  to main/d/dia/dia_0.97.1-8.debian.tar.gz
dia_0.97.1-8.dsc
  to main/d/dia/dia_0.97.1-8.dsc
dia_0.97.1-8_i386.deb
  to main/d/dia/dia_0.97.1-8_i386.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 621183@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de> (supplier of updated dia package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 20:44:19 +0200
Source: dia
Binary: dia-common dia-libs dia dia-gnome
Architecture: source all i386
Version: 0.97.1-8
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Dia Team <pkg-dia-team@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de>
Description: 
 dia        - Diagram editor
 dia-common - Diagram editor (common files)
 dia-gnome  - Diagram editor (GNOME version)
 dia-libs   - Diagram editor (library files)
Closes: 621183
Changes: 
 dia (0.97.1-8) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Removed *.la files from dia-libs (Closes: #621183)
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