Re: -dev package dependency policy

[Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>]

On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 09:06:33AM +0100, Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 04:53:30PM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 07:27:20AM +0100, Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> wrote:
> > > > > >     pkg-config --libs "uim >= 0.3.9"
> > > > > > generates "-luim -lm17n" instead of only "-luim" as before.
> > 
> > If the pkg-config file of uim gives a -lm17n, then, first of all,
> > libuim-dev should depend on libm17n-dev.
> 
> OK. How about scim?
> 
> osamu@dambo:~$ pkg-config --libs scim
> -lscim-1.0
> 
> So scim-dev can be as:
> 
> > Package: scim-dev
> > Section: devel
> > Architecture: any
> > Depends: scim (= ${Source-Version}), libc6-dev | libc-dev

Well, that'd depend on the content of the header files of scim. If they
include some other stuff, you must depend on this other stuff.

Mike