  We express the order of the pole and the leading coefficient of the
L-function of a (large class of) -adic coefficients (any prime) over a
quasi-projective variety over a finite field of characteristic p. This is a
generalization of the result of Milne-Ramachandran with coefficients. The new
key ingredient is the use of F-gauges and their equivalence in the derived
category with Raynaud modules proved by Ekedahl.
