Re: Depending on both runtime and dev packages?

[Nicolas Boullis <nboullis@debian.org>]

Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
> 
> So in Davide's case, foo-bin is going to have a dependency on both the
> runtime lib in libfoo0 (from ${shlibs:Depends}) as well as on the
> development package libfoo-dev (which the packager includes in the
> Depends list manually).  You could argue that the dependency on libfoo0
> is redundant; but it would be hard to leave it out since it gets added
> through the shlibs mechanism.

I don't think it should be considered redundant. I'd rather have package 
always depend on everything they use directly rather than rely on some 
other package's dependency (even libfoo-dev -> libfoo0)...


Cheers,

Nicolas