Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.58
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
Policy 8.5 recommends ("should") for a -dev package to have an install
dependency on the respective runtime library. It seems lintian does not
check for this but I think it should.
Hopefully, implementation would not that difficult: In debian/control,
identify <slug>-dev packages, in the libdevel section, and if there's a
related <slug><soname> package in the lib section, the -dev package
should have a strict versioned dependency on the runtime library. The
latter is actually already covered by "weak-library-dev-dependency".
Regards,
Christoph
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