You can safely omit packaging those pesky libtool archives from /usr/lib/lib*.la
BTW, were you intending on submitting digikamimageplugins and/or kipi-plugins? If not, I can submit them soon for review.
FYI, kipi-plugins reviewed and imported into cvs. digikamimageplugins is submitted and under review, but is blocking on this bug . See bug #171505.
I'm not intending on submitting digikamimageplugins or kipi-plugins. Is excluding .la files realy safe, I'm asking because of bug #165616 Comment #16 and Comment #17, also https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93359 "It has been noticed that Imlib2, a library which uses libtool's API for loading plugins at run-time, fails in Digikam 0.7" "When called from within Digikam, which is a KDE application and linked against libkdecore, Imlib2's plugin loader fails to find its *.so files, because the libltdl included with KDE is not built with support for .so files."
digikam's inclusion of /usr/lib/lib*.la files (or not) has nothing to with that other kdelibs bug. In short, they're safe to remove (or I wouldn't have asked for it). (-:
More precisely, libtool archives for shared libraries, ie, those matching %_libdir/lib*.so are usually superfluous and can safely be removed. libtool archives for loadable modules, ie, those matching %_libdir/kde/*.so *sometimes* need their .la counterparts (especially when the aforementioned kdelibs bug hasn't been fixed, see also bug #171544
Exclude libdigikam.la, packages will appear soon.