Sune Vuorela <nos...@vuorela.dk> writes: > On 2011-08-22, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote:
>> There are not, so far as I know, any exceptions for -dev packages from the >> normal requirements for Depends, which say simply: >> The Depends field should be used if the depended-on package is >> required for the depending package to provide a significant amount of >> functionality. >> and given that C -dev packages are unusable in general without libc6-dev >> installed, that would, on the surface, seem to qualify. > Should it also depend on a c-compiler and recommend make? :) Yeah, exactly. That's what a strict reading of Policy as currently written would seem to imply. I don't think that's a sensible thing to do, but we haven't made an exception for it. -- 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/87obzfzwg8....@windlord.stanford.edu
