Re: Depends on -dev package
On 2011-08-22, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
> "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.
Should it also depend on a c-compiler and recommend make? :)
/Sune
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