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Re: -dev package dependency policy



also sprach Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> [2004.11.28.0727 +0100]:
> > > > With this new libuim-dev package, the command pkg-config
> > > > --libs "uim >= 0.3.9" generates "-luim -lm17n" instead of
> > > > only "-luim" as before.

pkg-config can specify dependencies. In this case, libuim-dev should
depend on libm17n-dev.

> > > > However, scim-uim doesn't have libm17n-dev as build-depends,

uim states in its pkg-config file that it needs m17n, so therefore
it has to depend on m17n. scim should not need to depend on this.

> > > -  Depends: libuim0 (= ${Source-Version}), uim-common
> > > +  Depends: libuim0 (= ${Source-Version}), libm17n-dev, uim-common

precisely.

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