Hi Rafael, Am Freitag, den 31.12.2010, 02:07 -0200 schrieb Rafael Cunha de Almeida: > Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva <marcot@debian.org> disse: > > Excerpts from Rafael Cunha de Almeida's message of Qui Dez 30 20:32:03 -0200 2010: > >> Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva <marcot@debian.org> disse: > > I mean the daemon; without dbus daemon running, the library functions > are not really useful. What the library does is to use the daemon to > mediate interprocess communication. That is the reason libdbus-1-3 > recommends dbus, I think. I would argue against recommending dbus from the -dev package. The -dev package is used to compile binaries (and you don’t need dbus for that). If someone packages a haskell program built with haskell-dbus, then that package should Recommend (or Depend on) dbus. And developers do not need to be told. But this is really a minor and cosmetic issue. About the -prof package: I see it as „part of the -dev package that you can leave out to save space“, and I think it should have, as a general rule of thumb, no packaging logic by itself besides depending on the -dev package and other -prof packages. Having other recommends or depends in both -dev and -prof just duplicates the packaging logic and might cause mistakes when one changes them in -dev only later. Note that, for example, the -doc package is only suggested from -dev. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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