Paul Elliott <pelli...@blackpatchpanel.com> writes: > I quote from Debian Library Packaging guide >> 2. -DEV package dependencies >> >> The -DEV package would usually declare Depends: relationship on all -DEV >> packages for libraries that the library package directly depends upon, >> with the specific SONAME version that the library package is linked >> against. This includes libc-dev. [5]
> Does this mean that if my library has an include reference > #include <stdio.h> > in one of its .c or .h files, then my -dev package must have a depends line > like this in its debian/control file: > Depends: OTHER-STUFF, libc6-dev That's a fascinating point. I have never done that with any -dev package, since essentially every -dev package would require that, which seems rather silly. (There are almost no non-trivial C libraries that don't include standard C headers.) But there's no obvious reason why that shouldn't be required given the current Policy wording. I think this should probably be raised as a Policy bug so that we can clarify this one way or the other. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/878vqlgweo....@windlord.stanford.edu
