Re: Why does libfoo-ocaml-dev needs to depend on libfoo-dev?

[Samuel Mimram <samuel.mimram@ens-lyon.org>]

Hello,

Jérôme Marant wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Following #277540, I fail to understand why libsdl-ocaml-dev should
> depend on libsdl-dev.
>
> For example, liblaglgtk-ocaml-dev depends on libgtk1.2-dev.

This is not an answer for your precise bug but in the general case -dev
packages should depend on versionned -dev of dynamic libraries they are
linked with. This can be helpful to detect with the dependencies that a 
library does not indirectly depends on two binary incompatible version 
of a library. See :
http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html

Regards,

Samuel.