Re: Depends on -dev package
"Bernhard R. Link" <brlink@debian.org> writes:
> * Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> [110822 19:59]:
>> That's a fascinating point. I have never done that with any -dev
>> package, since essentially every -dev package would require that, which
>> seems rather silly. (There are almost no non-trivial C libraries that
>> don't include standard C headers.) But there's no obvious reason why
>> that shouldn't be required given the current Policy wording.
> Which wording are you talking about?
There are not, so far as I know, any exceptions for -dev packages from the
normal requirements for Depends, which say simply:
The Depends field should be used if the depended-on package is
required for the depending package to provide a significant amount of
functionality.
and given that C -dev packages are unusable in general without libc6-dev
installed, that would, on the surface, seem to qualify.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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