Re: Depends on -dev package
On 2011-08-22 11:54 +0200, Christoph Egger wrote:
> Paul Elliott <pelliott@blackpatchpanel.com> writes:
>>
>> 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.
There seem to be quite a few, although they are a minority:
,----
| $ aptitude search -- '-dev ~Dlibc-dev' | wc -l
| 96
| $ aptitude search -- '-dev ~Dlibc6-dev' | wc -l
| 281
`----
Sven
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