pangomm misses libpangomm-1.4.la

[Johannes Schmid]

Binary package hint: libpangomm-1.4-dev

This files needs to be installed to be able to build another software depending on libpangmm, like glom

[Alessio Treglia (quadrispro)]

libgtkmm-2.4-dev just depends on libpangomm-1.4-dev

[Murray Cumming (murrayc)]

Alessio, yes, but I don't understand what point you are trying to make.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package pangomm - 2.14.1-1

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pangomm (2.14.1-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - Drop 01_devhelp_path_fix.patch, merged upstream.
  * Tighten Build-Depends on libcairo2-dev >= 1.8.2-2 and
    libglib2.0-dev >= 2.18.0 to help experimental buildd figure out the
    correct dependencies.

pangomm (2.14.0-2) experimental; urgency=low

  * Use POSIX standard regex classes in sed trick in debian/rules.
  * Fix symlink ``usr/share/doc/pangomm-1.4'' to reference correct place.
  * Add 01_devhelp_path_fix.patch to fix all gtkmm to pangomm.
  * Use ``usr/share/doc/pangomm-1.4'' as URL in doc-base to match upstream
    behavior.
  * Continue to ship *.la in libpangomm-1.4-dev. It seems to be required
    for existing dependencies. Add clean-la.mk to debian/rules
    accordingly. (LP: #272665, #274732)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:38:36 +0000

[Murray Cumming (murrayc)]

I thought there was some policy not to ship .la files, not that I've seen any consistency about that.

[Xiyue Deng (manphiz)]

It is suggest not to ship .la files in new packages. But IIRC, for the ones already shipping them, it seems not possible to simply stop doing so before all its reverse dependencies are done, or it'll break something.