On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 11:21:25 -0300, Sergio wrote:
2011/4/1 Ralf Corsepius:
> On 04/01/2011 03:17 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Just a find on my Fedora 15 system for .la files, results in the
>> following. Do we run any routine tests for things like this? is AutoQA
>> meant to improve packaging?
>
> I sense a misunderstanding. Though it's right, in general *.la's should
> not be shipped, there is no rule which is strictly prohibiting shipping
> *.la's, because there are situations when *.la's can not be avoided to
> be shipped.
Wha situations? :)
Run-time and/or build-time [inter-]dependencies on .la files. You can find
several threads in Fedora-land, not limited to that one ->
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/packaging/2006-October/thread.ht...