Re: Depends on -dev package
Sune Vuorela <nospam@vuorela.dk> writes:
> On 2011-08-22, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
>> 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? :)
Yeah, exactly. That's what a strict reading of Policy as currently
written would seem to imply. I don't think that's a sensible thing to do,
but we haven't made an exception for it.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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