Debian Bug report logs - #621544
ldm: 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: ldm: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 18:07:17 +0100

Package: ldm
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.

ldm 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
ldm 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 621544@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@freegeek.org>

To: 621544@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#621544: ldm: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:09:45 -0700

On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 06:07:17PM +0100, codehelp@debian.org wrote:
> 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.
...
> 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.

the files in question are:

  /usr/lib/ldm/librdesktop.la
  /usr/lib/ldm/libssh.la

manually removing the files after package build doesn't break either the ssh 
or rdesktop backends, so that's at least promising.

live well,
  vagrant

Message #15 received at 621544@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>

To: 621544@bugs.debian.org

Subject: ldm: diff for NMU version 2:2.2.2-1.1

Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 18:22:12 +0200

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

tags 621544 + patch
tags 621544 + pending
thanks

Dear maintainer,

I've prepared an NMU for ldm (versioned as 2:2.2.2-1.1) and
uploaded it to DELAYED/5. Please feel free to tell me if I
should delay it longer.

Cheers

Luk

[ldm-2.2.2-1.1-nmu.diff (text/x-diff, attachment)]

Message #24 received at 621544-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>

To: 621544-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#621544: fixed in ldm 2:2.2.2-2

Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 23:17:28 +0000

Source: ldm
Source-Version: 2:2.2.2-2

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

ldm-server_2.2.2-2_all.deb
  to main/l/ldm/ldm-server_2.2.2-2_all.deb
ldm_2.2.2-2.debian.tar.gz
  to main/l/ldm/ldm_2.2.2-2.debian.tar.gz
ldm_2.2.2-2.dsc
  to main/l/ldm/ldm_2.2.2-2.dsc
ldm_2.2.2-2_i386.deb
  to main/l/ldm/ldm_2.2.2-2_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 621544@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> (supplier of updated ldm 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: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:41:53 -0700
Source: ldm
Binary: ldm ldm-server
Architecture: source all i386
Version: 2:2.2.2-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: LTSP Debian/Ubuntu Maintainers <pkg-ltsp-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>
Description: 
 ldm        - LTSP display manager
 ldm-server - server components for LTSP display manager
Closes: 621544
Changes: 
 ldm (2:2.2.2-2) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   [ Luk Claes ]
   * Don't ship .la files (Closes: #621544).
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