On Tue, 03 Sep 2002, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > What is the thinking behind always requiring libfoo-dev to depend on
> > libbar-dev when libfoo depends on libbar?  I understand the need when

The lack of symbol versioning, about 90% of the time.

> > but if libfoo opaquely wraps libbar, why have libfoo-dev depend on
> > libbar-dev?

It only opaquely wraps libbar if it is compiled statically.

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