Packages with libtool archives

[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.

I.e. blindly rejecting packages which carry *.la's would be wrong.

Ralf