Re: Should -dev and -dbg libary packages depend on ${Source-Version}?
>>>>> "James" == James Troup <james@nocrew.org> writes:
Ben> I've noticed that it's not policy for shared libraries'
Ben> libblah-dev and libblah-dbg packages to depend on libblah1
Ben> (=${Source-Version}) of the main library.
James> BTW: this isn't quite right; the source version doesn't
James> necessarily match the version number of the binary packages
James> (e.g. bash && libreadline). Some allowance must be made
James> for this.
Ahh, so how does this work? If I write up an amendment to Policy
(would this be appropriate for Policy, as opposed to the Packaging
Manual? I'm not sure.)
How would I best include an exemption for packages like this?
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