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

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Subject: Bug#347581: debian-policy: Explicitly permit *-headers binary package created from library source package
From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:49:46 -0700
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Reply-to: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>, 347581@bugs.debian.org
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Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:

> For background here, this bug is about permitting the splitting of the
> architecture-independent headers for a library into a separate -headers
> package rather than requiring (which the current Policy wording implies)
> that they be in the usually architecture-dependent -dev package.

[...]

This has now been merged for the next release.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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