Re: Depends on -dev package

[Christoph Egger <christoph@debian.org>]

Hi!

Paul Elliott <pelliott@blackpatchpanel.com> writes:
> I quote from Debian Library Packaging guide
>> 2. -DEV package dependencies
>> 
>> The -DEV package would usually declare Depends: relationship on all -DEV
>> packages for libraries that the library package directly depends upon,
>> with the specific SONAME version that the library package is linked
>> against. This includes libc-dev. [5]
>
> Does this mean that if my library has an include reference
> #include <stdio.h>
> in one of its .c or .h files, then my -dev package must have a depends line 
> like this in its debian/control file:

  You need that for packages ∉ build-essential that any of your public
headers includes. No reason to do that for some .c files. I've basically
never ever seen a -dev package depending on libc-dev.

Regards

    Christoph

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