Purpose of "buildtools" .so and .la files

[Jeremy Laine]

Hello,

I am currently doing some maintenance on the Debian packages of 
KDevelop and there are a number of shared objects and .la files whose 
purpose is not obvious to me. I cannot find any binaries or libraries 
that depend on the shared objects, which leaves me wondering whether 
they need to be distributed at all (possibly in a development package?).

I'd really appreciate any pointers on this topic! The files are:

/usr/lib/libkdevautomakeimporter.so
/usr/lib/libkdevautomakeimporter.la
/usr/lib/libkdevcustomimporter.so
/usr/lib/libkdevcustomimporter.la
/usr/lib/libqmakeimporter.so
/usr/lib/libqmakeimporter.la
/usr/lib/libkdevmakebuilder.so
/usr/lib/libkdevmakebuilder.la
/usr/lib/libkdevqtimporter.so
/usr/lib/libkdevqtimporter.la
/usr/lib/libkdevkdelibsimporter.so
/usr/lib/libkdevkdelibsimporter.la
/usr/lib/libkdevcustompcsimporter.so
/usr/lib/libkdevcustompcsimporter.la

Cheers,
Jeremy

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