On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 13:01 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > For background here, this bug is about permitting the splitting of the > architecture-independent headers for a library into a separate -headers > package rather than requiring (which the current Policy wording implies) > that they be in the usually architecture-dependent -dev package. > > "Kevin B. McCarty" <kmcca...@princeton.edu> writes: > > Chris Waters wrote: > > >> I would rather see that last sentence modified slightly to allow a > >> little more flexibility. Perhaps changing "placed in" to "placed in or > >> installed by". Or something along those lines. > > > Hmm, how about this? (I can't quite see how to keep it to a single > > sentence of reasonable length.) > > > "If there are development files associated to a shared library, the > > source package needs to generate a binary development package called > > librarynamesoversion-dev, or if you prefer only to support one > > development version at a time, libraryname-dev. Installing the > > development package must result in installation of all the development > > files." > > > This change would leave the door open for development files to be split > > up into separate packages as needed, as long as lib<whatever>-dev > > depends upon all of them, either directly or indirectly. > > This looks good to me. Here's proposed wording. Objections or seconds? > > diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml > index 720150d..1e134bb 100644 > --- a/policy.sgml > +++ b/policy.sgml > @@ -5163,11 +5163,20 @@ Replaces: mail-transport-agent > <heading>Development files</heading> > > <p> > - The development files associated to a shared library need to be > - placed in a package called > - <package><var>libraryname</var><var>soversion</var>-dev</package>, > + If there are development files associated with a shared library, > + the source package needs to generate a binary development package > + named <package><var>libraryname</var><var>soversion</var>-dev</package>, > or if you prefer only to support one development version at a > - time, <package><var>libraryname</var>-dev</package>. > + time, <package><var>libraryname</var>-dev</package>. Installing > + the development package must result in installation of all the > + development files necessary for compiling programs against that > + shared library.<footnote> > + This wording allows the development files to be split into > + several packages, such as a separate architecture-independent > + <package><var>libraryname</var>-headers</package>, provided that > + the development package depends on all the required additional > + packages. > + </footnote> > </p> > > <p>
Seconded.
Cheers,
Andrew.
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