Bug#41356: acknowledged by developer (lesstifg-dev: should depend on xlib6g-dev)
reopen 41356
thanks
Debian Bug Tracking System writes:
> There is no policy on this matter. Personally, I don't think it is going to
> be particularly useful unless it is automatically generated like shlibdeps.
> So until such a tool is written or shlibdeps is adapted to this task (you
> should be able to just change the package names by adding -dev), there is
> no point in doing adhoc additions here and there.
Sorry, but how can you say there is no point ? For people with no
direct network connection, using eg. apt-zip to install/upgrade stuff,
it is highly frustrating to realize after installing a package that it
cannot work because of a _missing_ dependancy. We have a packaging
system which can help in this respect, and I do not consider "it's not
automated" to be an Good Reason (tm) - package maintainance is not
automated, anyway ;) I mean, other things could probably be
automated, and the fact they are not yet does not seem to me a reason
for not doing them manually in the meantime - I guess Debian did not
always had dpkg-shlibdeps, am I wrong ?
As for automation, I'm not sure how easily it's done. Many packages
do not just "add -dev", some first strip the version number, and some
do not for perfectly valid reasons. Perhaps some shilbsfile-like
solution could do the trick ?
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