Bug#32229: PROPOSED] libc-dev dependency in non-libc -dev packages

[James Troup <james@nocrew.org>]

Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org> writes:

> libc5-dev does provide libc-dev as well, but that package is not
> allowed to be installed on glibc2-based Debian systems, and
> libc5-altdev does not provide libc-dev.

`not allowed' is simply not true.  It's entirely possible to install
libpwdb0g-dev on a system with libc5-dev (if libpwdb0g-dev depended on
libc-dev as you are proposing), if one were then to compile libpwdb
based apps, you would get mixed libc dependencies.

If this is really a problem which needs addresses, libc6-dev (and
equivalents) _must_ providing something other than libc-dev.
(glibc-dev maybe?)  Anything else is worse than ugly.

[libpwdb is a bad example for various reasons, it's just a random
example, I'm sure some there are good ones, which I can't be bothered
to find]

-- 
James
"Never trust trucks"