* Steve Langasek (vorlon@debian.org) wrote: > The .la files exist to remove the burden from application maintainers to > manually track the dependencies of the static libs they need. This is a > worthwhile goal, and it makes sense for users to want this to be > reflected at the Debian package level as well; it just doesn't make > sense to make things more convenient for users of static libs at the > expense of much more common use cases. Perhaps a Suggests: would be > appropriate here. A Suggests: would be acceptable to me. I have to say that the Debian packaging system already provides the dependencies that application maintainers will need, they're just not automatically installed for you when you install the -dev. Just look at the Depends for the actual library instead, which you'll have installed since the -dev depends on it anyway. Stephen
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