On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 02:05:56PM -0700, Joel Aelwyn wrote: > > *) The standard way of doing this today is to have a -dev package which > needs libc headers Depend on 'libc6-dev | libc-dev' to avoid the situation > of having only a pure-virtual package.
Why does that rule exists anyway? It's already part of build-essential. And build-essential is already defined for each arch. > *) On further reflection, and re-reading other parts of the thread, I think > it might be more useful to try to implement the following, and I would like > feedback on whether this needs adjustment, or people think it would be a > good idea. If it works, I can publish it as it's own tool, or try to get it > included in the debhelper package (the latter probably being prefferable). > > dh_devincludes I was also thinking about something like that some time ago. I'm just afraid it's not going to be very easy to get correct. > Searches the target package for *.h files, then searches each file found > for #include lines. Attempts to resolve each include, checking first the > package area, then the system library area. If the file is found in the > package, it is ignored; if not found at all, it throws a warning. However, > if the package is found in the system area, it checks the installed files > information and extracts the name of the package which provides that file. > The list of packages found is places into the substvar dev:Depends. I was thinking about libtool .la files and pkgconfig .pc files and looking at the libraries they require. (In case they are using it.) > * Does it need some way (a la shlibs) to resolve problems with "what > version of the -dev package is needed for this", or is this likely to be > uncommon enough to expect the maintainer to override it where necessary? I think there are lots of cases where there currenctly is a versioned dependency on a -dev package. However, I'm not sure if all of them are needed. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
