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