On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote: > My understanding was that -dev and -altdev packages are conflicting ones. > Why not included all man pages and other documentation in both > of these packages to avoid creating additional ones?
Because your understanding is incorrect. The -altdev packages live in /usr/<arch>-linuxlibc1/include to provide a libc5 compilation environment. It is definatly useful to have both -dev and -altdev installed at the same time, people building libc5 and libc6 packages need them.
