Bug#347581: debian-policy: Explicitly permit *-headers binary package created from library source package

["Kevin B. McCarty" <kmccarty@Princeton.EDU>]

Brian Nelson wrote:

> Get:1 http://rubeus sid/main libqt3-headers 3:3.3.5-3 [364kB]
> Fetched 364kB in 1s (226kB/s)
> 
> I wouldn't call 364kB a lot of saved archive space, and you'd be
> hard-pressed to find a package with more headers than Qt.

I'm actually working on unofficial packages of Geant 4 that might go
into Debian if upstream ever clarifies their license situation, and I
currently have

benjo (sid)[126]:~% ls -l src/GEANT4/geant4-headers_4.8.0-1_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 kmccarty kmccarty 1300680 2006-01-11 11:58
src/GEANT4/geant4-headers_4.8.0-1_all.deb

but I guess even 11 * (1.3 MB) isn't so much compared to the full
archive size.

If the general attitude of debian-devel is that this bug should be
closed, fine -- I don't have a deep emotional investment in it :-)
Although in that case someone may want to file policy bugs against the
headers packages I mentioned in the original email.

regards,

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