[Fedora-packaging] Re: libtool(.la) archive policy proposal

[Enrico Scholz]

Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net (Axel Thimm) writes:

>> then they must be in main packages, not in -devel. This thread shows
>> why.
>
> Makes one wonder how RHL/RHEL/FC worked w/o doing so.

'rpm -qf /usr/lib/*.la' tells that there is no rule how FC is packaging
.la.

Packaging in main instead of -devel seems to be the preferred method;
and it seems that this is intentionally:

| * Wed Mar 05 2003 Than Ngo <than at redhat.com> 1.1-8
| - move la files in arts package (bug #83607)



Enrico