On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 10:52:05PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Jeroen Dekkers <jeroen@dekkers.cx> immo vero scripsit: > > > > No, -dev should have the following entry: > > > > > > Package: libsomething1-dev > > > Provides: libsomething-dev > > > Conflicts: libsomething-dev > > > > > > so that only one version of the -dev package will be installable. > > > > I took a random example from the list (there are probably more of > > these examples, or I was just lucky to get this one). The lucky > > package was libpspell4. The binary in that package is > > pspell-config. > > > > Now what is this binary doing? It gives the following 3 pieces of > > information: version (.12.2), datadir (/usr/share), pkgdatadir > > (/usr/share/pspell). What the hell should this package do in *-dev? > > It's given information about the pspell installation it is coming with. > > This binary should be in -dev so that when linking binaries, > applications can use the information. > > Not required at all for running applications linked with it. I wouldn't care about moving all these thing to compile-time, but some people want to support non-free software which can't be recompiled. Then a program needs to find out which version of libpspell it's talking to and which directories you use. I think it should be done at run-time anyhow, it gives you more flexibility. > I think you have more things to learn first before making > comments. You should learn to be less arrogant. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: jdekkers@jabber.org Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
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