On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Shaleh wrote: > > So: It is ok that a package depends on libc6-dev in a hardcoded way, > > should that package depend on "libc-dev" instead, or is there (or > > should be) any other way to do this in an elegant way? > > Santiago, my understanding is that -dev depends is on the wishlist. There is > no equivalent for the shlibs. I had problems while maintaining Imlib because > of this. You have to list all the -dev's yourself.
I know there is not shlibs equivalent for -dev packages. But I'm still in doubt about the need of a depends line at all. Let's say that you have libfoo installed and you want to compile something with libfoo-dev. To compile *anything*, you will need libc6-dev anyway, so what is the purpose of libfoo-dev depending on libc6-dev? -- "691db1ffb2205a0f7be10e5db4f7b082" (a truly random sig)
