libogg.la should not be included

[Robert Massaioli]

I am trying to rebuild fuppes UPnP Media Server of Karmic and the problem is that libsimage-dev wrongfully includes libogg.la:

$ grep "libogg.la" /usr/lib/*.la
/usr/lib/libsimage.la:dependency_libs=' /usr/lib/libsndfile.la /usr/lib/libFLAC.la -L/usr/lib /usr/lib/libvorbisfile.la /usr/lib/libvorbis.la /usr/lib/libogg.la /usr/lib/libtiff.la -lc -lpng -lz /usr/lib/libjpeg.la /usr/lib/libgif.la -lm'
$

However, debian is removing all .la files on purpose. And as a result:

$ dpkg -L libogg-dev | grep "a$"
/usr/lib/libogg.a
$

Which shows that it is true, it is no longer present. simage needs to be packaged properly and without the reference to libogg.la.

Information:

$ uname -a
Linux workhorse 2.6.31-14-386 #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16 16:41:14 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10
$ dpkg -p libsimage-dev
Package: libsimage-dev
Priority: optional
Section: libdevel
Installed-Size: 216
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Source: simage
Version: 1.6.1-3ubuntu1
Depends: libgif-dev, libjpeg62-dev, libpng12-dev, libsimage20 (= 1.6.1-3ubuntu1), libsndfile1-dev, libtiff4-dev, libvorbis-dev, zlib1g-dev
Size: 41782
Description: generic interface to various image file format libraries
 The simage library provides a simplified and uniform interface to many
 image file format libraries, and it includes internal support for some
 image file formats too.
Homepage: http://www.coin3d.org/lib/simage
Original-Maintainer: Steve M. Robbins <email address hidden>

[Robert Massaioli (robertmassaioli)]

I uninstalled libsimage-dev and then ran ./configure && make && sudo make install on fuppes again and it worked perfectly; like it did in Hardy Heron. So the problem lies in libsimage-dev for sure.

[Robert Massaioli (robertmassaioli)]

So I asked for help on the debian mailing lists and this package is version 1.6.1-3 and debian is currently running 1.6.1-4, I suspect that the guys at debian have already fixed this in their package (though I have not checked myself). I would reccommend looking at 1.6.1-4 first before doing anything else. Thanks.

[Robert Massaioli (robertmassaioli)]

I believe that this bug has been solved in lucid. Please see here (http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/libsimage-dev) if you look at the changelog you will see:

 * rules: Set dependency_libs variable in .la file to empty string, per
    http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/08/msg00783.html

And if you look at that then it is fixed. Could somebody please confirm if this has been fixed in lucid and close if it has? Thanks.