[Pkg-gpe-maintainers] Bug#620444: libcontactsdb: please clean out dependency_libs

[Evan Broder]

Package: libcontactsdb
Version: 0.5-4
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu natty ubuntu-patch

Hi -

I've just applied the attached patch to libcontactsdb in Ubuntu to
empty out the dependency_libs field in the libtool .la file being
shipped in the -dev package. This is generally a good idea because it
avoids causing consumers of your library to require the .la files
listed to be available when they're not actually needed (i.e., in the
common case of dynamic linking). It will also cause problems in the
near future because multiarch is landing soon, which will cause the
..la files referenced by libcontactsdb to move, which would cause build
failures for anything linking against libcontactsdb. This change will
require a rebuild of libcontactsdb anyway in order to update the paths
in the .la file, so it's a great opportunity to just wipe out
dependency_libs entirely.

The changelog entry for this upload in Ubuntu is:

 * Rebuild to pick up multiarch changes.
 * Clean .la files.

Thanks for considering the patch.

- Evan

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