Re: Packaging policy for libtool .la files

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On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 10:52 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> 
> This still leaves several questions, though:
> 
> * Is it the packagers job to fix things like this?  It's certainly a
> Fedora-specific packaging policy to remove *.la files, so this is not
> something that we can force on upstream.

Yes, definitely. A packager _needs_ to be capable of at least this much,
if he/she is going to capably maintain the package.

If not, he/she should find a comaintainer who will help.

> * Is this something we should carry local patches to fix if upstream
> won't accept our changes?

That'll vary from case to case, but probably; yes.

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David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@xxxxxxxxx                              Intel Corporation

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