Bug#880922: lintian: Check for -dev -> runtime library package dependencies

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

tags 880922 + moreinfo
thanks

Hi Christoph,

> 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".

Thanks for the report. I was wondering if you could quickly provide
some example "bad" and "good" dependencies. This would 100% confirm
my understanding of what you are after, as well as be useful as
testcases within Lintian.

A very quick draft for a tag description (which I am happy to rework
later) would also be highly appreciated. :)


Best wishes,

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