tag 656848 wontfix stop
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Harald Dunkel <ha...@afaics.de> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Package: libav > Version: 4:0.8~beta2-3 > Severity: wishlist > > Would you mind to provide a meta package libav-dev requesting > all the other libav development packages in the same version? > This could make writing package build dependencies much easier. I don't think this would be a great idea. As application maintainer, you should know the requirements of your package, and knowing the libraries it uses is one part of them. To be more specific, during my last archive rebuilds, the exact build dependencies gave me a clue what part of libav a package is using, which was helpful for classifying libav's reverse dependencies. This wouldn't be possible at all if all application packages started to build-depend on some libav-dev package. On a related note, your request is similar to the idea of merging all libav* libraries to a unified libav.so shared object. This would lead to even more frequent SONAME bumps, which would have benefits and drawbacks. I think this is best discussed upstream. -- regards, Reinhard _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
