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Re: Section of -dev packages



Jörg Sommer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I ever thought development packages classified by $NAME-dev belong to the
> Section devel or libdevel, but

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> 
> I am really suprised. Which packages belong to devel/libdevel?
> 

I found this more instructive:

$ apt-cache search -n .\*-dev\$ | sed 's/ -.*//' | xargs apt-cache show
| grep \^Section: | sort | uniq -c
      1 Section: admin
      1 Section: comm
      3 Section: contrib/libdevel
    256 Section: devel
      5 Section: doc
      1 Section: electronics
      1 Section: games
      3 Section: gnome
      3 Section: graphics
      6 Section: interpreters
      3 Section: kde
   1379 Section: libdevel
      5 Section: libs
      6 Section: mail
      2 Section: math
      5 Section: misc
      3 Section: net
      6 Section: non-free/devel
      1 Section: non-free/doc
      3 Section: non-free/libdevel
      1 Section: non-free/net
      2 Section: non-free/x11
     25 Section: oldlibs
     17 Section: python
      2 Section: science
      3 Section: sound
      4 Section: text
      4 Section: utils
      3 Section: web
      3 Section: x11

In other words, on a Sarge system (with backports), over 93% of the
packages (the total is 1757) report themselves as being in devel or
libdevel.  On the whole, I would say that is pretty good.

-ROberto

-- 
Roberto C. Sanchez
http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto

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