retitle 1138694 please consider putting headers in dnsjit-dev
severity 1138694 wishlist
Hi Jerry,
On 6/2/26 13:34, Jerry Lundström wrote:
Unpacking dnsjit-dev (1.5.1-1~resolute+1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-VZloqc/77-dnsjit-
dev_1.5.1-1~resolute+1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/include/dnsjit/core/assert.h', which is also
in package dnsjit (1.5.1-2)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/tmp/apt-dpkg-install-VZloqc/77-dnsjit-dev_1.5.1-1~resolute+1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
jftr, Debian doesn't need to (and sometimes can't) be compatible with
packages outside of Debian, although this genereally is a rare case and
should always be avoided if possible.
Please split the package and put development files into -dev
The reason for not splitting it in the first place is that by ftp-master
policy (at the time dnsjit was uploaded first in Debian), this was
considered micropackaging (the amount of *.h files is not much to
warrant splitting it out in an extra binary packages, which has
considerable impact on Debians infrastructure).
However, since 2021 a bunch of things changed/improved, so, we can
introduce a sepearte package for that.
Regards,
Daniel
