Paride, Many thanks for your response.
So far as I can tell the only use of the kea-dev package is for building hooks. Hooks should include some logging output, and without kea-msg-compiler the message sources cannot be built. This essentially make the current kea-dev package not usable. Bug #1065361 (kea-dev: cfg_globals.h is missing) also renders the current kea-dev to all intents and purposes unusable, so I think it would be really helpful to have an updated kea- dev package adding both kea-msg-compiler and cfg_globals.h for Bookworm. Quentin Armitage