Re: Split Packages files based on new section "buildlibs"
On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 at 10:45:07 +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote:
> I'm confused. We are packaging libraries of language X but then those packages
> will not be used by people who write software for language X on Debian?
> Intuitively, should I ever start with Rust, I would've thought that I had to
> install librust-clap-dev if I want to write code using "clap". What else would
> I install?
The Rust community's expectation seems to be that you would install cargo,
and use that to download and build the clap package directly from upstream,
without apt/dpkg being involved at all.
You would only use librust-clap-dev if you were building *a Debian package*
that build-depends on librust-clap-dev (because we have a policy that our
archive must be self-contained, so downloading dependencies using cargo is
not allowed).
smcv
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