Re: Dia has .la files

[Bastien Nocera <bnocera redhat com>]

On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 15:12 -0600, Jerry James wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Colin Walters <walters verbum org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Debarshi Ray <debarshi ray gmail com> wrote:
> >> I noticed that the dia package has %{_libdir}/%{name}/*.la files. Any
> >> particular reason for them to be there? Doesn't guidelines ask us to
> >> remove them?
> >
> > Yes, please remove them.  We should not encourage the libtool agenda
> > to redefine how shared libraries work on our platform.
> 
> I've got quite a collection of .la files under /usr/lib64 on my Fedora
> 9 x86_64 machine.  All of the following packages contain at least one
> .la file:
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> bluez-utils

Obsolete package, bluez doesn't have any .la files.
<snip>
> gnome-bluetooth-libs

Fixed in CVS.

Cheers