Re: Dependencies on -dev packages
On Tue, 03 Sep 2002, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> Stephen Zander <gibreel@debian.org> writes:
> > What is the thinking behind always requiring libfoo-dev to depend on
> > libbar-dev when libfoo depends on libbar? I understand the need when
The lack of symbol versioning, about 90% of the time.
> > but if libfoo opaquely wraps libbar, why have libfoo-dev depend on
> > libbar-dev?
It only opaquely wraps libbar if it is compiled statically.
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