Comment 7 for bug 987502

As I mentioned in private email to Aron, I don't think we can sync yet since there are still some consumers of the .la file (bug #1017486 — help welcomed in fixing the two remaining candidates).

A minimal merge which just keeps the .la file does seem possible though; here's the diff for sponsorship. The control part of the diff is something Debian implemented to build a udeb for Ubuntu. It's not a real Ubuntu change.