On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 10:37 PM Joerg Jaspert wrote: > More and more packages are being uploaded into the Debian archive which > are only ever used for building packages. These are not only never > intended to be installed onto an end-user's system, they are even > actively discouraged from being used directly by a user. The two > currently most notable examples are packages used by the Go and Rust > programming languages and their ecosystem, but there well may be > others[1].
Does this include the -dev packages for C/etc libraries? I guess it also applies to Haskell and other statically-linked languages. https://wiki.debian.org/StaticLinking > The current proposal is to reduce the main Packages.xz files size by > splitting[4] out all of the packages that are not intended for users, > writing those into an own file. Those packages would have a section of > "buildlibs", independent of their other properties. Should (almost?) everything in the existing libdevel section move to the new buildlibs section? -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise