Re: [rfc] Policy: -dev packages should touch all .h in postinst
On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 05:39:27PM -0800 , Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> Wichert> Ewwwwwwwww. Most people don't include system includes in their
> Wichert> .deps list anyway which would make this a useless change.
>
> Why is that? Wouldn't you want your .dep/*'s to get rebuilt in case
> something is changed in the new *.h's from the -dev package?
yes. but not every time a install a -debian revision. Like glibc upgrade.
Those files almost never change.
> Couldn't it cause trouble if something changed?
Yes. But then, the library should have bumped the soname, so you have to
recompile anyway to use the new one.
Petr Cech
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