Hi, I'm building a package (a Scheme-to-C compiler) and I split it into three different debs: libfoo0 (runtime libs), libfoo-dev (.a and .la files and includes) and foo-bin (compiler and other tools). The depends are a big problem: foo-bin needs to depend on libfoo0 (otherwise the compiler won't run) but without the -dev package you won't be able to convert a Scheme file into a C one, so a Depends on libfoo-dev is needed, too: I don't think someone will ever use a program just to see the -help screen. Other idea could be to merge -bin and -dev packages, but in this way the new package will have to depend on both libpcre3 (the compiler is linked against it) and libpcre3-dev (you need it to compile .scm files into .c ones), so this seems a chicken-and-egg problem! Can someone suggest me a better idea to resolve the problem? Thanks in advance. -- Davide Puricelli, dpuricelli@tin.it Debian Developer: evo@debian.org | http://www.debian.org Time looked like snow dropping silently into a black room -- Ray Bradbury
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