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Re: Should -dev and -dbg libary packages depend on ${Source-Version}?



Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> writes:

> I've noticed that it's not policy for shared libraries' libblah-dev
> and libblah-dbg packages to depend on libblah1 (=${Source-Version})
> of the main library.

BTW: this isn't quite right; the source version doesn't necessarily
match the version number of the binary packages (e.g. bash &&
libreadline).  Some allowance must be made for this.

-- 
James


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