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.html#start -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
