[Freeassociation-devel] build and deb packaging changes

[crass at berlios.de]

I'm new to deb packaging so your input is welcome.  I am curious about
the reasoning for not including the .la files.  Can you give any more
info on this, perhaps a policy document?  It would seem to me that
including them couldn't hurt and might be useful (and they are small
files).  Is it to reduce filesystem clutter?  I noticed that it seemed
true of a lot of gnome packages like libatk1.0-dev.

In terms of debian support, I don't really know because I use ubuntu
and am not sure what implications would be.  If you are the
debian/ubuntu maintainer I would request that you do not include the
python packages at this time.  I'm thinking about reworking the
interface/API.

Thanks,
Glenn

On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:26:21 +0100

Fathi Boudra <fboudra at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi crass,
> 
> I have reverted your changes 1007: libical-dev package should
> include .la files. developement package should contain .la files if
> really needed and we don't need them.
> pkgconfig is used instead. Indeed, there's some exceptions (i.e. KDE3)
> but not for libical case.
> 
> @wilfried/crass: do you want support from Debian >= 5.0 (lenny/stable)
> or from >= 4.0 (etch/oldstable)?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Fathi