Linking -dev packages with their non dev package
Libraries are often distributed in two packages : one contains the
binaries, and the other one contains anything useful for compiling a
program using the library. Sometimes, there's even a third package
which contains the docs. I think that it could be usefull to somewhat
link those packages together so that apt can download the packages the
needed to compile a source package.
What first comes to my mind is to add a new kind of dependency called
`devel'. For instance, libjpeg62 would depend on libjpeg62-dev through
this dependency.
Does it sound sensible ?
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Laurent Martelli
martelli@iie.cnam.fr
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