Dia does not work without .la files - BZ 475992

[Manuel Wolfshant]

Huzaifa Sidhpurwala wrote:
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> Some time ago there was a long thread regarding libtool files which
> started with why dia has .la files.
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> I was unable to respond to that thread since i was travelling at that
> time. In the mean time it seems that someone removed the .la files from
> dia according to the fedora packaging policy.
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> However now dia crashes with an error message, i have done some
> preliminary investigation ( Ref BZ 475992  ) and it seems that the
> source is looking at the la files to determine the libs.
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> I am going to talk to upstream to see if this behaviour can be changed.
> However my question is in case they dis-agree what are the options do we
> have?
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> Do we bring the .la files back so that dia works ?
tough choice... what should we select, a working application with .la 
files included, or a nicely-packaged-but-crashing  app ?